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> Those are good finds, but nothing. Your claim wasn't that they didn't receive enough scrutiny. Your claim was that people haven't done anything. You lied,

> Those are good finds, but nothing. Your claim wasn't that they didn't receive enough scrutiny. Your claim was that people haven't done anything. You lied, or at best, are seriously misinformed, and got called out for it, and now you are moving the goal post trying to pretend like you weren't wrong and ignorant. Just admit it. You were wrong, you didn't know, and yeah, they are trying to do something, but haven't found anything yet, and even in 2018, they are calling for investigations. What more do you want? Do you want them to NOT investigate or ask for investigations?

chrisco255 8y ago
The FTC chooses who they really go after and who they don't. And that's at their discretion. It's not a lie that the FTC has done nothing. They have glazed over on the fact that Google owns 90%+ of the search engine market. That's a monopoly. The Democrats of the early 20th century would have gone ape shit over a company with the size and power of Google. Take a look at FDR's actions, for example: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/06/word-monopoly-antitrust/530169/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/06/word-mo... Google makes Ma Bell look like a tiny tyke by comparison. Their position and influence over the modern internet is in a word, scary. There's no check on their power, and the Obama administration did nothing to check said power. I don't care what rubber stamps or certificate of approvals they got. Google is a monopoly. It's fine if the Democrats have abandoned that principle. Totally fine. But don't call that analysis dishonest. Also, I'm not the only one mentioning this: https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/348217-the-democrats-rediscover-antitrust https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/348217-the-... https://newrepublic.com/article/144694/democrats-face-important-anti-monopoly-test https://newrepublic.com/article/144694/democrats-face-import...

chrisco255 8y ago

The FTC chooses who they really go after and who they don't. And that's at their discretion. It's not a lie that the FTC has done nothing. They have glazed over on the fact that Google owns 90%+ of the search engine market. That's a monopoly. The Democrats of the early 20th century would have gone ape shit over a company with the size and power of Google. Take a look at FDR's actions, for example: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/06/word-monopoly-antitrust/530169/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/06/word-mo... Google makes Ma Bell look like a tiny tyke by comparison. Their position and influence over the modern internet is in a word, scary. There's no check on their power, and the Obama administration did nothing to check said power. I don't care what rubber stamps or certificate of approvals they got. Google is a monopoly. It's fine if the Democrats have abandoned that principle. Totally fine. But don't call that analysis dishonest. Also, I'm not the only one mentioning this: https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/348217-the-democrats-rediscover-antitrust https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/348217-the-... https://newrepublic.com/article/144694/democrats-face-important-anti-monopoly-test https://newrepublic.com/article/144694/democrats-face-import...