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Re:Justice Department Is Preparing Antitrust Investigation o... by GeekyBear on Saturday June 01, 2019 @02:12AM (#20067574)
Antitrust action was recommended by the career antitrust officials at the FTC, not the politicians.

It was the political appointees (from both parties) who shut their recommendation that the FTC begin an antitrust action down.

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Re:Justice Department Is Preparing Antitrust Investigation o... by bduerst on Saturday June 01, 2019 @02:27AM (#20067635)
The 2012 antitrust actions were settled with Google by the FTC, not shut down:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2013/01/googl...

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Re:Justice Department Is Preparing Antitrust Investigation o... by rndgermandude on Saturday June 01, 2019 @08:00AM (#20068751)
It was shut down. They just call it a "settlement" to avoid it looking suspicious and for the FTC to save face.

So what was this "settlement"? Google promised to be nicer and said mea culpa a bunch of times. They did not pay a fine, did not agree to any hard regulations that would carry a penalty if violated, they did not pay any compensation to the entities they kinda admitted they wronged.

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Re:Justice Department Is Preparing Antitrust Investigation o... by erikpukinskis on Saturday June 01, 2019 @08:20AM (#20068829)
Who did they wrong?
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Re:Justice Department Is Preparing Antitrust Investigation o... by rndgermandude on Saturday June 01, 2019 @08:49AM (#20068937)
Other companies and consumers.
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Re:Justice Department Is Preparing Antitrust Investigation o... by erikpukinskis on Monday June 03, 2019 @02:51PM (#20086770)
No names? I’m not sure where to start.

With Microsoft there were clear injured parties: Netscape, Samba, WordPerfect, and those results created a chilling effect around Windows.

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