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2019-08-16 Cyber

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Posted by 3dc 2019-08-16 00:59|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,

#1 Readers have called my attention to a 10th Google blacklist, which the company applies to its shopping service. In 2012, the shopping service banned the sale of weapons-related items, including some items that could still be sold through AdWords. Google's shopping blacklisting policy, while reasonably banning the sale of counterfeit and copyrighted goods, also includes a catch-all category: Google can ban the sale of any product or service its employees deem to be "offensive or inappropriate." No means of recourse is stated.

Posted by 3dc 2019-08-16 01:09|| 2019-08-16 01:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Google Document Dump Website

Posted by 3dc 2019-08-16 01:20|| 2019-08-16 01:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Classic monopolistic behavior.
Digital version of 19c robber barons dominating the commerce AND the railroads without which the towns can't survive.

Break these bastards up.

Posted by Lex 2019-08-16 01:21|| 2019-08-16 01:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Turning the Internet into a 19th Century Company Town one blacklist at a time. Microsoft tried, will Google Inc. succeed?

Posted by magpie 2019-08-16 11:52|| 2019-08-16 11:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Microsoft was prosecuted for tying, and their behavior stopped.

Why hasn't Google received the same DOJ scrutiny and prosecution that MS did? The EU has prosecuted GOOG successfully again and again, and handed out billions in fines. Why no action against this monopolist in our country?

Could it, possibly, have anything to do with the 250+ White House meetings between GOOG execs and Obama White House officials, or the revolving door between GOOG and the Obama administration, or the board seat and tens of millions of $$ worth of GOOG options showered upon former VP Gore, or ....?

Posted by Lex 2019-08-16 12:11|| 2019-08-16 12:11|| Front Page Top

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