Canada poutine more pressure on Google by expanding ad biz antitrust probe It has not been a great week for Google's Ad business. After being served a €2.1 billion lawsuit in Europe, Canadian regulators have expanded an investigation into whether it abused its market position to quash rival platforms. In a statement released Thursday, the Canadian Competition Bureau revealed it had been granted a …
While I relish Google getting put in the stocks as much as the next man, notice all this is doing is protecting other advertising scum from Google, so that we can have even more giant advertising , tracking and targeting behemoths.
Count up how many cases for anything that hurts consumers. Yeah, you'd need Dave Allen's nostril finger for that.
Google has little to fear, except perhaps falling asleep during the investigation.
Or Pichai may retire first.
The Competition Bureau typically takes many years to investigate and prosecute frauds, anti-competitive actions or price fixing:
Canada bread price fixing (2001 through 2018): undetected until a whistleblower tipped them in 2015. Companies convicted and fines levied 2023.
"Business directories" fraud from 2012 through 2019. Charges laid 2021, conviction and fines 2023.
Price fixing and bid-rigging by firms shipping automobiles from Japan to Canada. First complaint in 2008, other complaints for 2011 and 2012. Conviction and fines levied 2023.
Don't forget, any company that donates enough to the Liberal Party will get any merger approved, regardless of how detrimental it is to the nation. See Rogers buying She, Canadian Tire buying The Forzani Group, Sobey's buying Safeway, all of the consolidation in mobile telecom...
Stop the presses and get the editor in chief out here .. ill have his rear end ..
Poutine is NOT a CANADIAN dish .. it's a QUEBEC dish and we Quebecers
are angry as hell about this outrage and recurring insult ..
Public apologies and a bag of curd cheese will get back on our good side .. < coughs >
SIgned : a teed off Quebecer out of curd cheese
Have a great weekend .. mine's the one with a can of poutine sauce in the left pocket ..
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