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Authored by: hardmath on Monday, October 22 2012 @ 12:28 PM EDT |
I'd suggest the Justice Dept. look into the financial
background of the FTC "staff" who recommended this crusade.
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Recursion is the opiate of the mathists. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 22 2012 @ 02:02 PM EDT |
I don't agree with the current FTC slant on Google.
However, this petition basically argues "anything a search
engine like Google does is PER SE protected speech and hence
exempt from any and all regulation, now and forever."
That's a really dangerous premise. What's to stop (for
example) Google from taking money to increase paying
customers in rankings, and not disclosing that fact? What's
to stop them from dropping companies from the search they
don't like? Or dropping companies unless they pay some
amount of money?
To be clear, NONE of these are practices Google has today.
But they ARE things a company with a dominant share of the
search market COULD do. And you're arguing the government's
ability to regulate this CAN AND SHOULD be "not at all." [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- I don't think we're in disagreement. - Authored by: pem on Monday, October 22 2012 @ 02:21 PM EDT
- Yeah, so? - Authored by: jesse on Monday, October 22 2012 @ 05:46 PM EDT
- Yeah, so? - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 22 2012 @ 11:23 PM EDT
- Yeah, so no. - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 23 2012 @ 06:46 AM EDT
- Yeah, so no. - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 23 2012 @ 03:10 PM EDT
- Yeah, so no. - Authored by: Wol on Wednesday, October 24 2012 @ 11:50 AM EDT
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Authored by: jrl on Monday, October 22 2012 @ 05:53 PM EDT |
Quite happy to use Google for search,
but even if Google went away, my next
stop would not be Bing...
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Authored by: artp on Tuesday, October 23 2012 @ 08:43 AM EDT |
Enforce the existing antitrust laws against Microsoft.
$50 billion can do a lot of damage as the Borg slowly
explodes into splinters.
The irony of the enforcement actions against Google is that
the antitrust laws have hardly been enforced at all since
1980, whether the administration was Democrat or Republican.
The actions against Microsoft so far have barely scratched
the surface of their anticompetitive actions, and have
produced no relief for citizens.
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Userfriendly on WGA server outage:
When you're chained to an oar you don't think you should go down when the galley
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