WTH: DOJ to Hit Google w/Antitrust Case in the Summer---GOOD!!!!

I saw this last night on twitter---911 was reporting it

and I wanted to share but, needed someone else to report it.

Not sure about this site but....the President was calling out

censorship so I can only think this is related.

And let's face it, if something is not done with these companies

Google
Facebook
Twitter

FREE SPEECH will be dead. So this makes sense starting to make

an issue because---there is one!

I think we are headed for a showdown.

And we will win...because the censorship is blatant and

ongoing...

More on this---


[link to www.wsj.com (secure)]


[link to www.politico.com (secure)]

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Google and Amazon own all the servers. They dont give a shit.

They're not paid to 'give a sh*t' but we pay for our

government under new management TO GIVE A SH*T!!!

There's the difference!

Shwartz

Waiting until right before an election to announce an investigation for something 50% of the world knows is happening

Is nothing but a power play to get votes later.

'Hey mayyy file in the fall' it's smart to wait because privacy intrusion only happens in the fall.

He never would have said 'lets just drag this out further instead of taking action now'

So waiting to file makes it sound like they don't actually care.

Announcing to google the upcoming 'plans' just allows them to move data around and prepare.

Yeah, there is not much going on huh?

They should've have done this right away huh?

I mean, it's not like there was anything else going

on like hearings telling the world our leader

was in collusion with the Russians or something, right?

Or something about the Ukrainian country having problems?

Or CHI-NAH releasing a virus...

Oh, no wait.....

Or maybe google will start to tone down their B.S. because they

know they're wrong and this is the PERFECT time to do this

with an upcoming election...when we really DON'T NEED THIS!!

Right? Yeah, that could be it...


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Last Edited by 1guynAz on 05/16/2020 02:41 PM

Has Barr done anything or does he just keep saying he's going to do something?

Again, is there evidence they are not censoring???

No. There's all kinds of evidence of censoring.

Is it exclusive???

Yes. They are censoring conservative and religious speech.

Is it possible they have an explanation???

No. They have a PUBLIC platform. If they expect to be treated

fairly, they have to do the same.



I could seriously go on and on about this...bottomline is---


they don't stand a chance in court. They have been denying

the American people their right to free speech.


Therefore they don't have any protection under our laws.

Dude, he was busy...just a little.

If you think about it, there were fires they had to put out.

They said they were taking priorities on issues.

It's time to take this to court.

And before the election is the perfect time to do this.


Do you know how many lies they are going to engage in to win???

It's the perfect time...

Excerpts from the articles---


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WASHINGTON—Both the Justice Department and a group of state attorneys general are likely to file antitrust lawsuits against Alphabet Inc.’s Google—and are well into planning for litigation, according to people familiar with the matter.

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The Justice Department and a coalition of state attorneys general are taking steps toward bringing antitrust suits against Google as soon as this summer, three people familiar with the cases said Friday, describing the litigation as likely.

The suits would make the search and advertising giant the first huge tech company to face concrete action from more than a year of probes, which have also swept up Facebook, Amazon and Apple as possible targets.

The people cautioned that neither the department nor the state AGs have made any decisions about filing such a case, which would be the first major U.S. antitrust action against a dominant technology company since the Clinton administration's pursuit of Microsoft in the 1990s. But the DOJ's antitrust inquiries into Google, Facebook and other Silicon Valley powers has become a priority for Attorney General William Barr, who has asserted greater control of the probes and has said he wants to make a decision on Google by the summer.


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The U.S. Justice Department and a group of state attorneys general are likely to file lawsuits against Alphabet’s Google in coming months, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
Both probes have focused on Google’s advertising business, but could be even broader in scope.
The news suggests the enforcers have not let up during the coronavirus pandemic that has sent much of their staff into new remote set-ups.

Google will likely face at least one antitrust lawsuit related to its advertising business from both the U.S. Department of Justice and state attorneys general in coming months, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Shares of Google parent Alphabet dropped sharply on the news, down as much as 3% after-hours.

The DOJ is aiming to file a case as soon as this summer, according to the report. At least some of the state attorneys general involved in the multistate probe led by Texas are likely to file suit in the fall, the Journal reported.

The DOJ declined to comment. A spokesperson for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton declined to comment on the Journal report.

A Google spokesperson said in a statement: “We continue to engage with the ongoing investigations led by the Department of Justice and Attorney General Paxton, and we don’t have any updates or comments on speculation. Our focus is firmly on providing services that help consumers, support thousands of businesses, and enable increased choice and competition.”



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Last Edited by 1guynAz on 05/16/2020 03:25 PM

Pine is good---THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!

They probably ruffuled some feathers going up against Microsoft & Zoom with their video conferencing.

Ads just started to run this week

You're absolutely right. Google was never investigated and never did anything illegal until trump became president. So theres no way anything could have been done by now! Lol gtfo

Good.

Good.

You realize they can literally force any case to be heard in an expedited fashion literally whenver they want right?

Pretending waiting tol right before the election to attempt to make ground is a good idea is just weird. If trump loses it will have been perfect timing as they could just withdraw the case before it ever goes to court.

Please explain how they will lose by answering these questions honestly if your not a shill and your really
a balanced concerned citizen:

Did they at anytime after 2018 election undertake any
'conservative platforms' and remove them from their searches?

Did they adjust their algorithms to eliminate certain
groups and base their 'finds' on that of opposing speech?




These two "facts" will stand out as the determining factor.

It can't be avoided.

Created by DARPA, so how did the gov't lose control?

(December 20, 2019) Google and the Koch Network: A Troubling Alliance of Convenience
With little notice, billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch and the conservative dark-money juggernaut
they built have become some of Google’s strongest backers, coming to the company’s aid as it navigates the storm
engulfing Big Tech in Washington and beyond.

The remarkable confluence of interests between two entities that long inhabited opposite ends of the political
spectrum has funneled millions to a roster of conservative and libertarian policy groups, all working to protect Google
and its profits from regulation. This little-noticed alliance of convenience has also seen Google lend its support
to a long list of conservative groups that take positions antithetical to the vast majority of its outspoken,
and mostly liberal, workforce, from climate change denial to opposition to gun control.

In August 2017, for example, top executives at the Charles Koch Institute and Engine, a Google-funded surrogate,
wrote an opinion piece for The Hill arguing that legal immunity for internet platforms was essential
to tech innovation. The issue is one of Google’s top policy priorities,
with multibillion dollar implications for its bottom line.

And in September 2019, Americans for Prosperity, the Koch family’s political advocacy arm, released ads urging state
attorneys general “not to politicize” antitrust probes of tech companies. “The Charles Koch Institute
and Foundation are a thoughtful partner and we are happy to work with them,” Engine’s Evan Engstrom said,
as the groups joined forces to lobby on data privacy legislation.

Engstrom, who has close ties to Google, is just one of a cast of characters who helped forge this unlikely alliance.
A key, and little-noticed role also appears to have been played by a British public relations executive,
whose surprising personal ties helped bridge the Google-Koch divide.

Rachel Whetstone was promoted to a top public policy job at Google in 2011,
following stints working in the Conservative Party in the U.K.
Three decades earlier, her grandfather, Antony Fisher—described as “the Johnny Appleseed of the free-market movement”
—founded what would become Atlas Network. The nonprofit, designed to encourage the proliferation of free-market think tanks,
now supports nearly 500 groups around the world.

Whetstone’s personal and professional connections seem to have come together as Google sought to bolster
its ties with conservatives in the wake of a disastrous 2011 Senate appearance by Google’s former chief
executive Eric Schmidt, who faced hostile grilling from Republicans. In 2012, the company made the first
of what would become annual donations to Atlas Network, where Whetstone’s mother serves as chairman of the board.

The Koch network gained notoriety for underwriting a conservative revolution across America. But with its tech investments, the Kochs started to send some of their millions to tech-focused, centrist and even left-leaning groups that have been longtime allies of Google. By one estimate, the Kochs have quietly spent more than $10 million to defend the search giant and other tech companies from policy threats in Washington.12

For Google, there are clear benefits to collaborating with the Koch network.
The Kochs’ influence with conservatives has helped Google navigate a new Washington,
one where the ties it forged with the Democratic establishment during the Obama years
are less valuable than they had been.

Less clear is what the Kochs get out of their relationship with Google.
The infusion of Google’s millions has been welcomed by the Kochs’
network of libertarian advocates and activists. The Kochs also have their own technology interests to protect.
Beyond their recent investments in the sector, any regulation of Google and Facebook,
for example, would also seemingly apply to i360, the Kochs’ own political data mining company.
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The government having power over private websites is an actual free speech issue, you moron. Facebook, google and twitter aren't the only websites out there but if the government can tell websites how to run they might as well be, since only the giants will be able to get around the legal and regulatory hurdles.

Your comment starts at 2018. I understand wgat you are saying and you arent wrong. But now lets consider everything google did prior to 2018...that they were never in trial or even put into defense mode for.

Why would you ignore all of that and conclude it only makes sense to start bringing things up literally a month before the election?


If you dont see the tricky power play there then you arent the type of person to see things on that level

No, Google was headed this way for quite a while now.

I would say before 2018 in hidden and subtle ways.

They've been pushing and pushing to make themselves

the voice of one party. They deserve to be sued period.

It needs to stop and completely turn itself around.

Hey, sh*t for brains I can hardly believe you strung two words

together. They are not private, they are public.

Changes everything.