U.S. v. Google: Inside the Biggest Tech Antitrust Trial in Decades | Amanpour and Company

[@AAB463]

I am looking forward to the Amazon case!

[@buzoff4642]

They've no wall, between their purported "We're a platform company." and their "Let's market our on goods on that platform." Bigger damage from - thumb on the scale advantage, 20 years no requirement to collect city/state sales taxes - operating expenses shunted to the public, such as no local property/business taxes, underpaid warehouse workers on public welfare, etc.

[@social.media.command]

Thank you for your report.

[@ingridseim1379]

I first started using Google in 1998, and its search results were far higher quality back before 2010 or so they are now.

[@boudiccamarchestorome9475]

I like this Teddy Roosevelt turn the DOJ has taken lately. Monopolies of all kinds crush innovation and competition.

[@buzoff4642]

Visibly, and, monopolies create oligarchy. And oligarchy fuel corruption.

[@shirleyandrews1152]

Thank you for protecting The People.

[@therationalist234]

I would prefer to see an antitrust case against institutional investors that essentially own everything (i.e. Blackrock/Vanguard).

[@robertspeer]

That’s more of a tax issue. For example a sales tax that generates a 10x profit over the cost of a fully funded SEC and treasury and whatever other government infrastructure oligopolies are absolutely addicted to and can’t exist without.

[@therationalist234]

I want to emphasize that I recognize these firms are NOT technically monopolies in that there is competition and they don’t actually own the vast majority of their AUM. I may need to read up more, but I believe it has overly emphasized the stock market as the reflection of a healthy economy whereas many Americans are not in a position where they can invest

[@josephludwig1126]

Yes, those who own the most , dictate.

[@5400bowen]

@@therationalist234yup, the myth that the stock market benefits the average person is unanimous in the media. The big lie...like mergers and aquisitions is now also. Good thing the Dems are trying to put a stop to it.

[@animaze86]

good luck with that

[@GNARGNARHEAD]

I can't help but wonder if Googles search will get back to being decent after the remedy is resolved..

[@lazersly]

Finally! Is the US Government going to finally start taking anti-trust seriously?

[@buzoff4642]

Closing the barn door, after the horse is out. IT monopolistic industry's been buying/killing competitors for at least 30 years.

[@NicholasWilliams-uk9xu]

It's not ever what it seems, Google's stock usually go up when things like this happen, it's more of a artificial stimulus, rather than a real crack down. Google's stock went down, then after that the anti-trust propaganda is there to artificially draw attention to the stock, therefore more people end up buying stock. When one thing is said, another thing happens, almost every time. For instance (Climate change, or sustainable A.I energy usages), when one thing is said, the other happens (Climate Change accelerates, and A.I energy usage increases).

[@dlewis895]

GREEEDY GOP PRO PROTECT CORPORATIONS AN BILLIONARES AN MEDIA NOT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FAMILIES

[@5400bowen]

@@buzoff4642with the help of corruption in politics...

[@buzoff4642]

@@NicholasWilliams-uk9xuIT is the sale of pipe dreams. - It's one of the few No Returns sales, regardless of how poor the quality of what one receives. - Prospecting for investors, using facade of competence, AI, self-driving cars/robots/etc. when engineering with June grads writing academic grade software.

[@stretch1681]

Great questions by the interviewer clear concise questions that people are asking about this case

[@ForNika]

Next Amazon & Tesla, Meta... Tax Cheaters.

[@buzoff4642]

Not until a turnover in congress. Which requires the public to eliminate the two parties' control over our voting processes. Is there _any_ _good_ _reason_ a voter is _required_ to list a party affiliation, to register to vote?

[@rsv-code7004]

They need to go after many other companies. Apple should be one of the first in my opinion.

[@buzoff4642]

"app stores", all of them.

[@mickeymengu]

Amazon next!

[@5400bowen]

Maybe now I'll stop constantly getting a query on screen asking if I want to sign into google every time I open a new page or do a new search. When I click on "no stay on Safari", it jumps up on the screen and I have to click no, stay on Safari again. I'm starting to hate google.

[@RAZR_Channel]

This is 1 case where I disagree. Being the : Default... is Not being Forced. And microsoft had the budget to compete yet Bing having tried numerous times... is still the joke of search...

[@tammiepulley7167]

Good interview. We need competition.

[@robertsmith5744]

GooGoo + AI = Schitt

[@Guardian__Angel]

Too little, too late.

[@andrearenee7845]

Amazon, X, take them too.

[@JackieOo]

so much for the “Do no evil” motto

[@randyharmon717]

Now this guy sounds like he’s got his stuff together very articulate, accurate and the facts of what’s occurred and why it’s inappropriate. Next is what is going to happen and what repercussions will be felt and how it will effect the citizens. Thinking in a common sense approach it sounds like the governments got the goods.

[@carlamartin9889]

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@dolliscrawford280]

Google search engine has become worse and worse especially if you are not looking for the first 6 pages of advertised products or you are looking for recent news.

[@marvelmusic4566]

What are you talking about? I ask it a question, I get a thousand answers. For free. Now there's going to be different 'sources' and competition will cause issues that we don't have right now.

[@katejudson8907]

I have used duckduckgo for 10 yrs and haven't missed Googoo at all.

[@stormzilla66]

@@marvelmusic4566 Why would you want a single company to have monopolistic control over an entire sphere of the market? Capitalism is predicated on competition. Companies NOT being allowed to have total control means they have to produce superior products to outperform their competitors, which leads to better products/services and lower prices for consumers. If Google has absolute dominance over the search market (which it does, not because it's better, but because it's filthy rich), then it no longer has to innovate or offer lower prices. It can rest on its laurels, stop innovating, and take advantage of consumers. This is Economics 101.

[@champagnebulge1]

Good for Jonathan Kanter. Don't let Google rest comfortably.

[@GroovyVideo2]

GooL

[@GuylaineLauniere-mc8ho]

4 CG compliance messages fully of threats and accusations... in ONE BIG SWOOP...is unacceptable.

[@MarioSt-Jean]

Tanck you si good New 👍👍👍

[@GuylaineLauniere-mc8ho]

My temporary problem was resolved when I could reach my law-enforcement and national security friends in Montreal later yesterday .

[@GuylaineLauniere-mc8ho]

I'll give CG compliance an A for effort... but their abuse was uncalled for.

[@GuylaineLauniere-mc8ho]

Further information was published by Normand Lester... Canadian journalist in various "security" investigations... TODAY. He did a recap all the way back to the 80s.

[@GuylaineLauniere-mc8ho]

CG Compliance... really should have refrained from threatening to contact authorities AGAINST ME. Just saying.

[@GuylaineLauniere-mc8ho]

As I previously mentioned... All was resolved a bit later when I was able to contact my people...IN PERSON.

[@GuylaineLauniere-mc8ho]

Some journalists publish nonsense based on "alleged police informants" with complete disregard for the safety of the people who were actually involved in the 80s investigations. HENCE my asking for help.

[@GuylaineLauniere-mc8ho]

Even Normand Lester cannot publish everything that WE know. Hence my asking for help.

[@matthewbittenbender9191]

It's vitally important to drive competition in individual industries. All one has to do is look at the US steel manufacturing industry and how it imploded in the late 20th century. It was a highly protected industry with tariffs and tariff barriers in place to protect it against foreign competition. The factories themselves had an innovated and upgraded for a century. Once the US eemoved those barrowrs, instead of investing in innovation, they chose to close their doors because no one in xharge wanted to work for a living any longer. Us steel and Bethlehem steel were two of the biggest and were completely out shit down in under a decade. The US steel industry still has yet to fully recover to the levels. Once sustained, but It was the 100 years of stagnation versus government deregulation that caused this. And the executives intransigence to actually working for profits was the downfall.

[@Pants3]

How about keeping institutional investors from purchasing single family homes

[@buzoff4642]

How about city/state legislators stop putting in zoning and building laws, that are designed to solely benefit the construction industry? How about halting the open borders, pouring excessive population into the job/housing market? The predation of institutional investors on the ridiculously tight housing market, is built upon both of these.

[@abrockman102]

I love our American democracy for its checks and balances that ebb and flow with time.

[@elinope4745]

I miss misunderstanding Sasha. I hope that they have to pay an extra billion dollars to help get justice for what they did to her.

[@cepamor]

Meaningful intervention in real time makes the most sense. These companies don't get there all by themselves. The bureaucrat dweeb with the tight glasses, obviously someone who in his lifetime could never ever innovate anything quite as brilliant as a Google, is charecterisic of regulators who were suppose to be there along the way, but allowed what they now in the 11th hour fault as criminal. They need to shoulder an equal part of the blame for letting it happen. 😮

[@FrickinTony]

Sounds dangerous

[@GuylaineLauniere-mc8ho]

And CG Compliance just did it again. They erased my comment about THEIR abusive behavior.

[@michaelratliff7775]

Amazon and Walmart are too short for this ride? 🤔

[@josephludwig1126]

Our US Government Is Still Trying To Help Us

[@buzoff4642]

The agencies are non-partisan. Which is why Libertarian, US Chamber of Congress, ALEC, SCOTUS, Trump funders, Federalist Society, etc., want them gutted.

[@pipe2devnull]

Adobe next!

[@markseagraves5486]

It’s possibly google will tilt search results to favor media and politicians that oppose this litigation and antitrust efforts in general. This may open the door to finding that this and other such platforms are not passive bystanders free from liability. On the other hand, we may not wish for any government to secure over-arching authority regarding a citizen’s rights to privacy. I feel the key is mandated transparency and a free market.

[@gnuemacs1166]

Noting was done about Microsoft

[@Gurusum6]

Kroger next. Then Amazon. Blackrock too.

[@strawberryego6669]

1:48 / 17:54 Build the walls. Then you can do this 😂 #WhoNeedsGoogleWhenIHaveYouTwo ♾️

[@NubalanceDNAcDc]

😂 u naut A Rl "Judge"

[@josephmiller38]

A monopoly can charge less for their product or service, and can still be profitable.

[@trevinbeattie4888]

They can also stick with an inferior product or service, stifle innovation, and create insurmountable barriers to entry for any potential competitor who might offer something better than consumers demand.

[@josephmiller38]

@@trevinbeattie4888 Well…they can also buy up competitors businesses and they’re superior products on the auction blocks. after the bankruptcy of these superior products. Then offer these superior products at a cheaper price.

[@GuylaineLauniere-mc8ho]

Amanpour was there. How about a recap...long before the horrific murder? Perhaps some people are too young and unaware of everything that PRECEDED that.

[@Prudence-i7u]

YAY

[@Aditya-f8t5z]

Best wishes to the DoJ ❤ Willing the U.S. government willingly let go of all the knowledge that Dottir has collected over all these years or the service Dottir provides to billions of people each day. 🥰 I'm betting not. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 If the people made Dottir who she is today, then it is the people who will have to change her. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 Dottir Google belongs to the people of the world. 🥰 Best wishes to the DoJ ❤

[@GuylaineLauniere-mc8ho]

Apparently... one cannot make comments about the Kashoggi investigation... even if one WORKED on those all the way back in the 80s... with the Canadian and US and international security agencies. The wrath of the KZbin police follows. Haha

[@marvelmusic4566]

I love Google. A world's library on my phone. Ask any question, get a thousand answers. Don't know what that plant or stuff is? Google it. Take a picture and it tells you. I don't pay for Google. So now that there is going to be competition, is that going to change? I don't know if this is good news. I think of Twitter and now look who owns it and what it's become.

[@katejudson8907]

Other search engines do this too. Often better.

[@stormzilla66]

Why would you want a single company to have monopolistic control over an entire sphere of the market? Capitalism is predicated on competition. Companies NOT being allowed to have total control means they have to produce superior products to outperform their competitors, which leads to better products/services and lower prices for consumers. If Google has absolute dominance over the search market (which it does, not because its better, but because its filthy rich), then it no longer has to innovate or offer lower prices. It can rest on its laurels, stop innovating, and take advantage of consumers. This is Economics 101.

[@stormzilla66]

Why would you want a single company to have monopolistic control over an entire sphere of the market? Capitalism is predicated on competition. Companies NOT being allowed to have total control means they have to produce superior products to outperform their competitors, which leads to better products/services and lower prices for consumers. If Google has absolute dominance over the search market (which it does, not because its better, but because its filthy rich), then it no longer has to innovate or offer lower prices. It can rest on its laurels, stop innovating, and take advantage of consumers. This is Economics 101.

[@buzoff4642]

@@katejudson8907 Clearly doesn't recognize the point of monopolies, "I don't know if this is good news." Monopolies want to ensure the public doesn't have a choice.

[@cepamor]

​@@katejudson8907... Often better? Please name one. 😮

[@stelladonaconfredobutler9459]

Is this going to be like the phone companies ? Nothing but a big mess that we are still paying for today because they bought each other again. We do use Google because it is a great search engine

[@ivanmucyongabo9540]

It's not about one size fit all solutions. What exactly does anti trust specifically on google improve. If you want the search engine to be better, just say that. I'm sick of the government being a hammer, they're as short-sighted as the shareholders they rail against. At the end of the day it's nice to see dems thinking about these things.

[@ivanmucyongabo9540]

Did he say advertising $ is why I'm paying more for goods. I'm a layman and that just doesn't sound right.

[@ivanmucyongabo9540]

One silver lining is that this may lead to people getting offline.

[@Tad-For-Global-Peace]

Please go after Elon X. He is a far right conspirator

[@GuylaineLauniere-mc8ho]

HELP! Please contact authorities.

[@GuylaineLauniere-mc8ho]

HELP! I am a canadian indigenous woman in Montreal Québec. I have been hacked by Pegasus at 1hrs22 this morning. Please contact authorities. I can no longer communicate with my friends in law-enforcement in Canada.

[@rezakarampour6286]

' Whistleblower Zach Vorchies on Google Censorship . ' AE911Truth Channel .

[@GuylaineLauniere-mc8ho]

This morning's attack went as far as calling me a pervert and threatening to send "alleged sexual photos and videos" to all my contacts and other public media platforms. HELP!

[@Pinstripe0451]

"People want opportunity and economic freedom" This guy is as fake as his glasses.

[@stormzilla66]

People don't want opportunity and economic freedom?

[@Pinstripe0451]

@@stormzilla66 Sure, but the way how its being propagandized is completely overstated. People first and foremost want safety, then opportunity.

[@buzoff4642]

@@Pinstripe0451 What's safe about the internet/network? I turned on LightBeam, and visiting a single web site proliferated my visit to their site, to over 800 other web sites. Car companies now sell your every driving move to car insurance companies. Did you ever read that user agreement upon first boot of a new PC? You give Microsoft the right to collect and "sell your biometrics". Photo/video, voice print, if fingerprint login, that too, of all who use that PC.

[@CarlosBayon-NO.1]

PBS cut the Puertorican Delegation from The DNC convention.