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The underpayment was a top priority of google, to the point that individual executives committed crimes that should have led to their incarceration - had the Do
by sonotathrowaway 5y ago
The underpayment was a top priority of google, to the point that individual executives committed crimes that should have led to their incarceration - had the DoJ interpreted the law according to its text rather than according to their political ideology.
As it stands, all the DoJ was capable of was issuing guidance that acknowledged that crimes were committed that should have led to jail time, and politely asks corporate executives to not commit those crimes again, on pain of another chiding letter.
- vmception 5y agoDoJ and other parts of the government have been successfully convinced that consequential enforcement is counterproductive to their greater anti-trust goals. basically, because the government also wants competition in the market, they can't be the reason why there is no competition after they curb stomp one of the major few competitors in many fields. there is some degree of truth in this, but it has also been co-opted to prevent any meaningful consequence for people and their organizations, once they are big enough