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USDOJ Sniffing Google Antitrust Suit, Hires Ex-Disney Lawyer

Posted by timothy on from the only-the-government-can-run-monopolies dept.

Van Cutter Romney was one of several to write with the story that "The Justice department has secretly hired former Walt Disney lawyer Sanford Litvack for a possible antitrust suit against Google. As reported earlier, the Justice Department is investigating the deal between Google and Yahoo which accounts for 80% of online search advertising. The Wall Street Journal writes today that Justice Department lawyers have been deposing witnesses and issuing document subpoenas for weeks — but that doesn't necessarily mean a case will be brought."

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  1. Re:I thought Google is competing with Microsoft by H0p313ss · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Americaaaa!! Fuck Yeah!

    Troll? Dude that was either humor or insight.

    Well it made me laugh anyway

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  2. Re:I submitted this article hours earlier by Quantos · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Your article is still pending... Disney and Xenu need to confer...

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  3. You don't know when this article was submitted. by Max+Threshold · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It could have been submitted days ago. If I were a Slashdot editor, I guarantee I wouldn't sit here in front of my computer browsing story submissions all day. I'd set it up so I could browse them once a day, and then schedule them to appear throughout the day, while I sit around sipping margaritas.

  4. Not a surprise by Daetrin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "I submitted this article hours earlier. Its a total mystery how slashdot editors choose favorites."

    Have you considered the possibility that of the "several to write with the story," maybe, just maybe, you were not the first person to submit it? Perhaps Van Cutter Romney submitted it "hours" + 1 earlier.

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    1. Re:Not a surprise by Vectronic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Also worth noting, is that if 'Van Cutter Romney' wrote the summary, its written better than Peter303's... if I was an editor I would have chosen Romney's as well, cause im lazy, just like the Slashdot editors...

  5. Big deal by PingXao · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I'm going to block ads no matter where they come from, as can any "consumer". All of a sudden the DoJ is concerned about anti-trust violations. This is bad because it means, within the halls of Justice, they see online advertising as "a big deal" while most online denizens detest all forms of online advertising. OK, some of us allow Google's unobtrusive text-only ads through because they're not too annoying, but if that should change then they're blocked too.

    So the "big business" of online ads - that everyone hates - is important to the Justice department. Meanwhile, the MIAA and RIAA are allowed to continue bribing the Congress and being given the right to author their own laws, which are then backed up with the full weight of the US Government behind them.

    Both major parties are fucked up, if you ask me. Really, really fucked up. No matter who wins the Presidency nothing much is going to change.