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Re:Google CEO Sundar Pichai to Meet with Top GOP Lawmakers by chrisco255 on Friday September 28, 2018 @12:33AM (#18091104)
The FTC chooses who they really go after and who they don't. And that's at their discretion. It's not a lie that the FTC has done nothing. They have glazed over on the fact that Google owns 90%+ of the search engine market. That's a monopoly. The Democrats of the early 20th century would have gone ape shit over a company with the size and power of Google. Take a look at FDR's actions, for example:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/06/word-mo...

Google makes Ma Bell look like a tiny tyke by comparison. Their position and influence over the modern internet is in a word, scary. There's no check on their power, and the Obama administration did nothing to check said power. I don't care what rubber stamps or certificate of approvals they got. Google is a monopoly. It's fine if the Democrats have abandoned that principle. Totally fine. But don't call that analysis dishonest.

Also, I'm not the only one mentioning this:

https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/348217-the-...

https://newrepublic.com/article/144694/democrats-face-import...

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