US DOJ to probe Google for Anti-Trust practices. - page 2.

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Quote from: squatz1 on June 04, 2019, 04:02:47 PM

Eh. I don't really know if this is something that the DOJ is going to be able to win though. As they're attacking a private company for behaving as such. Obviously, they're not going to make their website super easy to use for other browsers (The whole youtube dilemma) and stuff like that. I would think any company if they were put into their position, would do the same thing.

Plus there are competitors of Google for their products.

Google Drive - Dropbox, Microsoft Cloud, etc.

Youtube - There are some shitty alternatives, but they still are present.

Google Ads - Bing Ads, Facebook Ads, Twitter Ads, etc.

Google Cloud - Amazon Web Services, and the many other web service companies

Google Browser - Firefox, Opera, Edge, etc.

Google.com - DuckDuckGo, etc.

And so on and so forth.

You should review the standards by which a monopoly is determined to be in violation of anti-trust laws. It is not as cut and dry as any competition simply existing. There are three main premises which many of these companies fall clearly under such as restraint of trade, market share, and market power among other things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law

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Eh. I don't really know if this is something that the DOJ is going to be able to win though. As they're attacking a private company for behaving as such. Obviously, they're not going to make their website super easy to use for other browsers (The whole youtube dilemma) and stuff like that. I would think any company if they were put into their position, would do the same thing.

Plus there are competitors of Google for their products.

Google Drive - Dropbox, Microsoft Cloud, etc.

Youtube - There are some shitty alternatives, but they still are present.

Google Ads - Bing Ads, Facebook Ads, Twitter Ads, etc.

Google Cloud - Amazon Web Services, and the many other web service companies

Google Browser - Firefox, Opera, Edge, etc.

Google.com - DuckDuckGo, etc.

And so on and so forth.

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It's about time. Google has been a dominant force in internet search and is very likely manipulating result to promote businesses with which they contract and for which they advertise.

The other issue I would like to see investigated is if Google is skewing search results to promote or subvert certain political points of view. I don't know how the DOJ will approach the probe, and whether manipulations of political stories within Googles news services are part of the probe.

The internet is still relatively new and forging new territories within our culture. As a society we've been keeping a fairly hands off approach to tech companies' growth and business practices. As a result these companies have plundered our personal information for their own financial domination. I'm optimistic the DOJ probe will expose some of the more dangerous aspects of these tech companies' business practices.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/31/doj-preparing-antitrust-probe-of-google---dow-jones.html

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