>During Obama it didn't seem like the problem it is today. The career antitrust officials at FTC thought Google should be prosecuted, but the political appoint

>During Obama it didn't seem like the problem it is today. The career antitrust officials at FTC thought Google should be prosecuted, but the political appointees (of both parties) that control the agency shut down their investigation. >The investigators, who handed the document to the five FTC commissioners who would decide whether to launch an antitrust suit, found in 2012 that the search company's "conduct has resulted -- and will result -- in real harm to consumers and to innovation in the online search and advertising markets." https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/google-causes-real-harm-to-consumers-and-to-innovation-ftc-says/ https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/google-cause... Meanwhile, the EU proceeded with their own antitrust investigation into many of the same issues and Google was found to be guilty.