Orrin Hatch asks FTC to examine "potential antitrust developments in Google's search & digital ads"

[Miles Archer]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch on Thursday asked the Federal Trade Commission to examine the potential antitrust developments in Google’s search and digital advertising.

Hatch, the Republican chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said in a letter to FTC Chairman Joseph Simons he was concerned about the Alphabet Inc unit’s practices, citing a number of antitrust complaints and reports since the agency’s last investigation in 2013.

Alphabet shares were little changed after the news.

Trump’s economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, later said the White House was “taking a look” at Google, saying the administration would do “some investigation and some analysis,” without providing further details.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-antitrust-google/republican-senator-asks-ftc-to-examine-google-ads-idUSKCN1LF275

[Wellstone ruled]

1. So Mr. Hatch is worried the public

might find out about his History. Another attack on the free expression and facts.

[edhopper]

2. Orrin Hatch

has shown himself to be more of a loathsome piece of shit than we even thought.

And that is a high bar.

[Me.]

5. I Never Thought He Had A Ceiling

[HipChick]

3. Are kids still in cage? Does Flint have drinking water yet?

Really? This is all they can find to do?

[Solly Mack]

4. Control the media & medium - control the message.

Tyrants, tyrants everywhere and not a right to spare.

[J_William_Ryan]

6. Another

big government Republican crippling the free market.

[Gothmog]

7. Hatch has been showing signs of senility for some time

[spanone]

8. yea hatch, they're not praising your fucking leader enough

[Caliman73]

9. I am all for holding the giant tech companies accountable. This however, is crap.

Republicans do not give a shit about anti-trust anything. They are for trusts. They want Sinclair to buy up all of Tribune's outlets except that Sinclair was so stupid and arrogant that it blew a sure deal.

Hatch and the other Republcan idiots are going after Google for purely political reasons. They could have "looked into" these same concerns anytime in the last 6 years that they have held Congress.

[C_U_L8R]

10. Anti-trust? How?

there is plenty of competition and choices on the internet.

These republicans are total assclowns. Idiots.

[WePurrsevere]

11. Would someone who actually knows how a search engine like Google works...

PLEASE explain it to Trump, Hatch and all of the other idiots who don't have a friggin clue...
Or...
Send them this link..
https://www.inc.com/brian-hart/heres-how-google-search-works-mr-president.html

Or maybe a video with cool pictures would get through... Although it's a bit over 5 minutes and doesn't mention "Trump" even once so it may be to long to keep the toddler-in-chief, his GOP sycophants or Cult45 engaged.

[Initech]

12. They are absolutely drunk with power right now. This is getting scary.