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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.
That, and it's a big target at a time where POTUS is looking for enemies he can vilify to distract from is own problems.
I don't see this being a bad thing per say. Unless Google has gone thru that within the last year or so.
But the reason to look into it cuz the president is an idiot is not.
The millennial that doesn't like most of the stuff designed for millennials.
He stated he'll run again in 2020 about 8 months before he was even elected -the first time-. And if you don't think he can win again, go talk to all the "he has a 98% chance of losing people".
Please think before posting next time.
https://news.sky.com/story/president-trump-to-run-for-re-election-in-2020-11269888