Stifling the competition. Yes they are bigger than just search with youtube and maps and all that.
If you actually read the entire reply you should see that my position on that has moderated.
Well, they’re the biggest agricultural monopoly in this country. Why isn’t fat donald going after them? Why is he going after social media companies only? You don’t see any issues whatsoever with this?
Because they are the most popular not because they make it impossible for others to exist
Even social media is unfair to Conservatives. Such snowflakes.
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Many liberals hate Monsanto, that is why.
At one time Inktomi had a similar marketshare to what google has today.
Investigated for what, exactly?
I don’t think Trump is complaining about “maps”
Negative news about Trump is popular that must mean there is an evil plot by search engines of bias against “conservatives”…WAAAH!
Funny, all the liberals in here saying what, google antitrust, outrageous. Must have missed this.
From. Eric Schmidt: Obama's Chief Corporate Ally | Tech Transparency Project
> Did Eric Schmidt’s support of the Obama campaign have any impact on the decision to close the FTC investigation?
The fate of the FTC probe into Google appeared to change radically right after an election in which Schmidt served as an important advisor.
As the investigation progressed into the fall of 2012, investigators became increasingly certain that Google had broken antitrust laws, and they seemed sure the government was poised to file a landmark suit against the search giant. In August 2012, FTC staff privately recommended bringing a suit on three of the four matters it considered.xv In October, word had leaked to the news media that FTC staff were recommending that the government sue the search giant.xvi
That suddenly appeared to change following the election. By November 20, 2012—two weeks after the vote—media reports suggested the Commission was wavering on its investigation. Sources now believed that Google “may skirt the most serious antitrust allegations.”xvii
I thought Trump was going to provide a business - friendly environment. Why is he trying to make things difficult for private businesses who are providing thousands of jobs??
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Heh. Google it. All over the world they get large fines and penalties for unfair trade practices which covers a lot of different ground. Data collection is a good one, coupled with deceptive information on what and how they actually collect said data.
Well, I don’t want them investigated in support of Trump anyhow, I just think they are drunk with power and stretching laws and regulations beyond the breaking point.
Just another thing you’d be losing your ■■■■■■■ minds over if it was a Democrat.
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All the fines have been in relation to google shopping, not google search…
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/09/22/white-house-distances-itself-reports-that-trump-could-target-facebook-google-twitter-with-new-executive-order/?utm_term=.bb6712dddc26](http://White House distances itself from reports that Trump could target Facebook, Google and Twitter with a new executive order)
Asked about the document, Lindsay Walters, the deputy White House press secretary, said of the digital-age ‘whodunit’ on Saturday: “Although the White House is concerned about the conduct of online platforms and their impact on society, this document is not the result of an official White House policymaking process.”
The document has floated to tech companies such as Facebook and lawyers at white-shoe firms around Washington. In fact, the first that many at OSTP had even heard of an executive order came from an email sent by an unlikely source: Yelp, the reviews site. The company long has attacked Google for abusing its market power, albeit by limiting the reach of some of its competitors in search results and not political bias. Still, Luther Lowe, senior vice president for policy at Yelp, contacted multiple White House aides in September with the draft executive order, according to two White House aides and a copy of an email shared with The Post.
So someone got a copy of a proposed executive order written by a Yelp lobbyist…
What, Democrats now don’t want to break up monopolistic companies?
I see nothing wrong with this as long as it is turned over to the proper antitrust specialists in the appropriate agencies.
That said, once Trump starts this investigation he needs to stay out of it completely. It cannot be used as an end run around the first amendment. I am sure Democrats in Congress will do enough screaming to assure he stays out.
His motivations may not be pure…that doesn’t mean that a determination if these companies are breaking antitrust laws should be avoided.
Anti trust laws. You know, like Big Oil and Big Communications? They are the new communications networks.
If they are not breaking any of these laws, that should be the end of it.
Breaking up monopolies is business friendly. Don’t Democrats believe that any more?
