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I’ve been getting some sort of advocacy ads using wildfire maps on Google as an example of something that pending US legislation would take away. The details el
by topkai22 5y ago
I’ve been getting some sort of advocacy ads using wildfire maps on Google as an example of something that pending US legislation would take away. The details eluded (the ads may need work.) But I suspect this article is tied to that. campaign.
Anyone know exactly what legislation Google is worried about?
- alisonkisk 5y agoToo many to count. https://www.google.com/search?q=google%20antitrust+law https://www.google.com/search?q=google%20antitrust+law
- jeffbee 5y agoThey're talking about the "Ending Platform Monopolies Act" popularly known (in my circles anyway) as the "Yelp Welfare Act". The bill would make it effectively impossible for Google to have any features that overlap with any conceivable competitors, so if for example there was some wildfire maps service, anywhere, no matter how obscure or useless, then Google Maps would have to give it equal billing over its own wildfire maps. This is because the Act makes it an illegal conflict of interest to own a platform and "exclude from, or disadvantage, the products, services, or lines of business on the covered platform of a competing business or a business that constitutes nascent or potential competition to the covered platform operator".