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posted by janrinok on Tuesday September 10 2019, @03:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the grabs-popcorn dept.

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.

-- submitted from IRC


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by shortscreen on Tuesday September 10 2019, @06:42PM (2 children)

    by shortscreen (2252) on Tuesday September 10 2019, @06:42PM (#892304) Journal

    If these states are concerned about goog's anticompetitive behavior (they should be), maybe they could start by REMOVING all of the google-analytics, googletagmanager, google-apis, and recaptcha shit from their own GOVERNMENT websites?

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 10 2019, @06:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 10 2019, @06:59PM (#892305)

    this just shows that they are only fighting over the slaves.

  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by barbara hudson on Tuesday September 10 2019, @07:19PM

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Tuesday September 10 2019, @07:19PM (#892311) Journal
    Maybe they should make their sites so they don't have web bugs, social media sharing icons, Javascript, etc.

    No Javascript and no links to external scripts, external css, external html, external images, is the way to go.

    It should be possible to access any government site using a text browser such as links or lynx. Requiring all this other crap means the site doesn't comply with the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act).

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