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_khau on June 27, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusin...

My understanding is that the same anti-trust protections exist in the US, perhaps even stronger ones, but were not applied.

Is this just a case of lobbying corruption?

ocdtrekkie on June 27, 2017 [–]

I summarized the bulk of the issue here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14644723

The FTC's staff have previously recommended filing charges against Google, and then the people up the ladder buried it.

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