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Get ready to be probed by the Antitrust Voltron, Google: Attorneys general combine from Texas, New York, Maine, Arizona, Missouri...
From IRC we get the following story:
The attorneys general of 50 US states and territories are teaming up to probe Google for possible antitrust violations, Ken Paxton, the AG for Texas, announced on Monday.
The bipartisan push involves 48 states, with only Alabama and California – the latter being the home of Google and Silicon Valley – declining to take part. Washington DC, and Puerto Rico, a US protectorate, have stepped up, though, bringing the total number of prosecutors to 50.
California Assemblyman member Jordan Cunnigham (R-San Luis Obispo) expressed disappointment that California's State Attorney Xavier Becerra isn't part of the monopoly probe. "Attorney General Becerra's refusal to join the bipartisan investigation into the tech giants is embarrassing. California deserves to be at the table," he said.
Paxton will be leading the probe, described as "a multistate investigation into whether large tech companies" – cough, cough, Google – "have engaged in anticompetitive behavior that stifled competition, restricted access, and harmed consumers."
"Now, more than ever, information is power, and the most important source of information in Americans' day-to-day lives is the internet. When most Americans think of the internet, they no doubt think of Google," said Attorney General Paxton.
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday September 10 2019, @04:54PM (6 children)
You had me until
- if you want to do the soft sell, you need to avoid the cliche' trigger phrases.
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday September 10 2019, @08:03PM (3 children)
Alphabet could branch out into private for profit prisons. (that force 24/7 ad viewing on all four walls of your cell)
Alphabet could also become a defense contractor. In fact, with Boston Dynamics, they almost might have been. But alas B/D didn't produce practical killer robots quickly enough for the military's taste.
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday September 10 2019, @08:13PM (2 children)
And they may have managed to somehow do this, and more, without disclosing it on their public financial statements because: "national security."
However, the same evil, nefarious, potential futures await almost any sufficiently large organization, from IBM to Dow Chemical to JPL to Hasbro toys...
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday September 10 2019, @08:53PM (1 child)
At least I can take comfort in the fact that Google won't be evil. They said so. And they wouldn't lie because they're not evil.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday September 11 2019, @01:09AM
Why do you think they had to spin off Alphabet?
You really know for sure when they spin off a company called: "Google, dark mode."
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Wednesday September 11 2019, @11:29AM
what if I told you google was started by a DARPA project? How are you so easily triggered? How is this a cliche? Do you know the meaning of that word? Or Soft sell?
do you not think any usa police officer can get access to any gmail account without even having to ask? And all 50+ spy agencies that are active in the domestic united states? And all shared with several foreign countries? That epstein could have read your mail if he wanted?
do you not know the people who opted out of tracking were being tracked the whole time?
are you really arguing against my point or are you just uncomfortable that is either correct or will *sound* like an overstatement?
do you really not think spy agencies are not trying to not just infiltrate but actually own all of the major software platforms? do you really expect any of these organizations to create any actual privacy solutions?
to do so it would seem to me would be making a huge number of wild assumptions, far wilder than the questions I am making, which should be indicative of which attitude is more accurate.
What is the world going to be like when nation states can simply sabotage the operation of all software they don't like and pretend it wasn't them, that their IT staff was just incompetent. Effectively a massive ideologically based DDOS fired from *the inside* of the software, just because they want you to shut up.
Certain recent events come to mind, mozilla's certificate renewal failure, SN being taken offline because no one here believed the obviously psychop veritas story about a fake google employee leaking something that distracted from epstein? NSO group pretending they weren't just handed the iphone bugs to exploit by the designers? What do you think those windows 10 "updates" are really doing? Would you buy the brooklyn bridge if I offered it to you if you just installed my software on your bitcoin miner?
That last one I'm serious about, because if you get all of the other answers wrong, you're going to get that one wrong too.
Face it, government(s)/nwo/tptb/whateveritis really, really, really does not want you to have a functioning cpu that they cannot readily monitor. This is the line which is being drawn and moving rapidly in the direction of crass totalitarianism, evidenced I think quite handlily by the likelihood the reader has probably never considered these ideas until this very moment and it's f*cking 2019.
People who advocate for this privacy and/or are capable of actually building it can expect doubleplusextra attention from miniluv as recognition for our wrongthink, and may be featured in an upcoming 2 minutes hate.
And once they have me/us out of the way, guess who they are coming for next. So you're being, I think, pretty anti-intellectual by trying to remove some of the most important phrases from the discussion. This is not the soft sell, we are in hard sell territory, what is going on is not extremely dangerous to democratic and even republican or federal institutions, and the entire concept of humans being able to have rights.
thesesystemsarefailing.net
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 11 2019, @02:48PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company [wikipedia.org]