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Regulation
Topic Started: Aug 31 2017, 12:28 AM (83 Views)
Jolly
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Geaux Tigers!
I am not a big government person, but I do believe monopolies are not good for the country. Google is becoming a monopoly. I think at this point in time, because of the increasing importance of the internet, terming Google a public utility and regulating it as such, should be enacted.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/08/30/zephyr-teachout-google-is-coming-after-critics-in-academia-and-journalism-its-time-to-stop-them/?utm_term=.590eabe15601
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros
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Axtremus
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HOLY CARP!!!
No, Google is not a monopoly.

If you want to advocate for some sort of fairness doctrine when it comes to dissemination of opinions, fine. But there is no need to mischaracterize Google to do that.
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Copper
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Shortstop

Recent estimates put the Google market share between 80 and 90%.

Not quite a monopoly, but close enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press_v._United_States

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Associated Press v. United States

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The Associated Press (AP) had prohibited member newspapers from selling or providing news (whether that news was supplied by the AP, or was authored by the member newspaper - called "spontaneous" news) to nonmember organizations as well as making it very difficult for nonmember newspapers to join the AP.

Originally there were three separate cases (Associated Press et al. v. U.S., Tribune Company et al. v. U.S. and U.S. v. Associated Press et al.) that were joined into one when heard at the Supreme Court.

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The Supreme Court held that Associated Press had violated the Sherman Act. The bylaws of AP at that time, as written, constituted restraint of trade. The fact AP had not achieved a complete monopoly was irrelevant. The First Amendment did not excuse newspapers from violating the Sherman Antitrust Act. News, traded between states, counts as interstate commerce, and thus makes the issue relevant for the Sherman Antitrust Act. Finally, Freedom of the press from governmental interference under the First Amendment does not sanction repression of that freedom by private interests (326 U.S. 20).



Bust 'em up.

The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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Jolly
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Geaux Tigers!
That's my opinion.
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros
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