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Senator Orrin Hatch Asks FTC To Investigate Competitive Effects of Google's Conduct in Search and Digital Advertising (thehill.com)
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) is calling on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate whether Google's search and digital advertising practices are stifling the marketplace. From a report: Hatch sent a letter to FTC [PDF] Chairman Joseph Simons expressing concern about reports in recent years ranging from Google restricting competing advertising services to collecting data from users' Gmail inbox contents. "Needless to say, I found these reports disquieting," Hatch wrote. "Although these reports concern different aspects of Google's business, many relate to the company's dominant position in search and accumulating vast amounts of personal data." The letter comes at a time when critics of Google's market power are gaining momentum, helped along by growing concerns over data privacy. But most of the lawmakers echoing those concerns have been Democrats and Hatch, the longest-serving member of the Senate, may be the highest-profile Republican to call for the government to take antitrust action against Google.
Everyone can see his problems already. They are all over twitter. He shares them
Its just that nearly half the country believes the racist, misogynistic, gay bashing vitriol that he speaks. He is not a good or even neutral human. He is Chaotic Evil thru and thru.
The millennial that doesn't like most of the stuff designed for millennials.
He doesn't bash us (gays). In fact, he's said very little with respect to the LGBTQ community and always avoids responding to questions in every interview, changing the subject. To follow, most federal sites have removed references to LGBTQ progress since the administration took office. He _did_ say he believes marriage should stay "traditional," whatever that means for someone with multiple divorces and cases of infidelity.
Instead of bashing, he appoints officials to attempt to erode any LGBTQ equal rights gains made over the years, namely because his core base (ultra-conservatives) are typically those who do bash gays.
I think it's fair to say words that come out of his mouth mean nothing (even less than your run-of-the-mill lying politician), but his administration's actions definitely do mean something. While silence leaves room for ambiguity of interpretation, actions still mean something.
Orrin Hatch, one of the architects of striping both the FTC and FCC of their ability to regulate business is asking the FTC to investigate Google because they are mean to "conservatives".
The irony is palpable with a man who's spent his career defanging governments ability to go after monopolies asking government to investigate when they don't have the authority to do a damn thing and he knows it because he was instrumental in taking those abilities away.
But Hatch is a sycophant who finally proved he didn't have any morals and he proved it when he got down on his knees and serviced Trump. It's a good thing he's retiring because he shat all over his legacy the last 4 years.