Court Rules That Google Can Legally Manipulate Searches to Influence Political Results

[Darth]

So, you don't believe in anti trust laws ?

Correct.

 

[spat]

Correct.

So oppressive dictators are fine as long as they don't call themselves "government" ?

 

[Darth]

So oppressive dictators are fine as long as they don't call themselves "government" ?

Are they "fine?" I don't personally think so.

Is it the place for government intervention? No.

Are they dictators if they are a voluntary agreement between parties? Absolutly not.

 

[spat]

Are they "fine?" I don't personally think so.

Is it the place for government intervention? No.

Are they dictators if they are a voluntary agreement between parties? Absolutly not.

You have a strange definition of "voluntary".

 

[Robin]

I'm not sure it truly is a 'private enterprise', or a functional tentacle of the CIA.
Robin

 

[Darth]

You have a strange definition of "voluntary".

Voluntary (adj) - done, given, or acting of one's own free will.

Yep, very strange.

 

[S&W Fan]

It’s obvious by the state of the net that only the weak minded will be influenced by what they read on the internet.

Unfortunately there are Millions of weak minded people that would rather be told what to do than think for themselves . Created over the last 30 + years by indoctrination camps called schools of higher learning.

 

[gun_slinger_boy]

What % of the market do you think a company needs to have to be effectively a monopoly ?

Exactly 100%. And then the company has to operate in such a way to quash any competition. So google isn't even close to a monopoly. Even if they were the only search engine available there is nothing they are doing to disallow others from emerging.

 

[spat]

Exactly 100%. And then the company has to operate in such a way to quash any competition. So google isn't even close to a monopoly. Even if they were the only search engine available there is nothing they are doing to disallow others from emerging.

So Ma Bell, Carnagie steel and Standard oil weren't monopolies either ?

Google has about 92% market share in search. That is enough that nobody else can get started. Virtually all web pages on the internet are now designed around google search algorithms.

The few hangers on are not enough "competition" to matter, google dictates the landscape everyone operates in.

As for abusive business practices, they are not required to be a monopoly, they *are* what anti-monopoly legislation is designed to prevent. That's why ma bell was allowed to exist for so long, they were obviously a monopoly, but they weren't considered to be engaged in anti-competitive behavior.

Any answer along the lines of "if you want to compete with Google, just build your own internet" is ridiculous.