Obama Anti-Trust Chief on Google the Monopoly Threat

CWmike writes "The blogosphere regularly excoriates Microsoft for being a monopoly, but Google may be in the cross-hairs of the nation's next anti-trust chief for monopolistic behavior, writes Preston Gralla. Last June, Christine A. Varney, President Obama's nominee to be the next antitrust chief, warned that Google already had a monopoly in online advertising. 'For me, Microsoft is so last century. They are not the problem,' Varney said at a June 19 panel discussion sponsored by the American Antitrust Institute, according to a Bloomberg report. The US economy will 'continually see a problem — potentially with Google' because it already 'has acquired a monopoly in Internet online advertising.' Varney has yet to be confirmed as antitrust chief, and she said all this before she was nominated. Still, it spells potentially bad news for Google. It may be time for the company to start adding to its legal staff."

Comments

Obama, determined to destroy any company.

[tjstork]

This is democratic politics in a nutshell

a. regulate in the public interest
b. if a company is profitable than it is criminal, go to step a.
c. if a company is unprofitable, nationalize it, and stuff it with your buddies, return to step a.

Re:That's scary

[cyber-vandal]

But in Libertarianworld all the competitors would have to do would be to make a better product and suddenly everyone would abandon the multi-billion dollar investment they have in Windows and Office and live happily ever after.

Re:Because you didn't fix it last century!

[RightSaidFred99]

I see. So the market has chosen a defacto standard you don't like. And game vendors have chosen to develop for Windows.

If I was one of you drama queen nerds who hates MS so much, personally I'd abstain from using it no matter what. Are those games so important? Testing your apps in IE hardly counts as "needing" windows, you're just using it to test compatibility.

Immediately stop using any MS product unless required for work. Otherwise you're part of the problem - if people demanded what (you consider) better, MS wouldn't be in business.

Re:Monopoly on online advertising is the least of

[spun]

No, some asshole is trying to make me look bad. I never post AC. Whoever it is isn't very creative, they use the exact same lame phrase on me.

Lame attempt

[spun]

Ah, the 'go slit your wrists fucktard' troll. Classy. Here's a tip: I never post AC. And there is a poster here who LOVES the phrase 'go slit your wrists fucktard.' So all we need to do to find out who this REALLY is is search on that phrase. I've never used it, but SOMEONE uses it quite frequently.

Nice try, dimwit. I thought you'd at least be entertaining, but no. You are the lamest cyber-stalker I've ever met. When are you going to downmod me into oblivion? I'm shaking in my boots, LOL.

Re:Monopoly on online advertising is the least of

[spun]

That's okay, my post in response to yours came out WAY more snarky than I intended it to, so I can see why you might have thought that was me.