back to article In this week’s episode of Texas Attorney General: Google faces lawsuit accusing it of crushing ad-tech rivals

Google is set to be at the end of another antitrust lawsuit, with Texas’ Attorney General Ken Paxton announcing on Wednesday he will sue the internet giant for damaging competition in the ad-tech market. Somewhat unusually, the allegations were made via a slick video that looked like a trailer to a reality TV show. A press …

  1. Duncan Macdonald

    Orange Turnip again

    Trump and his allies could not stand the fact that Google provided accurate information when he wanted to mislead the US population (eg about the number of covid-19 deaths). Google did a lot to blunt his reelection campaign by providing accurate results that instead of the highly slanted results from sites such as QAnon. Thankfully come 20/Jan Trump will be out of office.

    1. Fred Flintstone Gold badge

      Re: Orange Turnip again

      He might be out of office then, but clearing the stench of his influence will take years.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    FAIL

    The problem with the TX Attorney General ...

    ... is that he's a Trump Clown.

    Last week he filed a lawsuit directly in SCOTUS asking it to overturn the election results and appoint Trump president for a second term. SCOTUS promptly replied "Fuck NO."

    The side-effect of Ken Paxton's SCOTUS Trump lawsuit is that his anti-trust lawsuit against Google won't be taken seriously, although it probably has some merit.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: The problem with the TX Attorney General ...

      "The side-effect of Ken Paxton's SCOTUS Trump lawsuit is that his anti-trust lawsuit against Google won't be taken seriously, although it probably has some merit."

      Any truth in the rumour he's shipping in the Michigan election fraud witnesses to testify against Google? I'm sure "drunk woman" would have something to say. And Rud's farting...

    2. HausWolf

      Re: The problem with the TX Attorney General ...

      There might be some credence to the rumor that one of the reasons he's in the forefront of these suits is that he is shopping for a pardon. He faces several federal charges as he is just another corrupt politician in the long line of corrupt politicians from Texas.

      But yes, he is not much more than a trump peenremora.

  3. naive

    Big-Tech is like the mob

    Digging up dirt against all who want to prosecute them The lefties may have a laugh about all of this, they just have to wait until they outlived their usefulness for the balance sheets of the gazillionaires owning Big-Tech and find them selves on the wrong side of these modern age gods.

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Paxton

    Imagine if Republicans had gotten away with that coup.

    If Paxton had got the votes from 4 swing states blocked, there would be riots. Trump has already configured the Defense Department to use the military against the rioters. Trump nutjobs put in positions of power, Generals removed from the chain of command....

    They just expected their hand picked Supremes to do their bidding.

    There are Republicans saying Trump should declare martial law and seize power rather than follow the will of the people. Arizona GOP even called for violent overthrow.

    Even now 126 Republicans are trying for a last minute coup in the Senate, demanding Senators simply appoint Trump and refuse to certify the election. All 8 of the Republicans that flew to Moscow on July 4th to smooze Putin among them.

    Did Trump really get so many more votes than even Reagan? Yet he's approval rating is in the dumps. So no. Republicans will be rigging those paperless voting machines, they keep insisting on using each election.

    https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/457168-report-says-eight-states-to-use-paperless-voting-in-2020-despite

    "Many of these Americans will vote in the eight states that will use some form of paperless voting in 2020: Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Kansas, Indiana, Kentucky and New Jersey. “Experts have longed warned that these machines are a security risk because they do not allow election officials or the public to confirm electronic vote totals,” the report’s authors wrote."

    Texas, Republicans, Louisiana, Republican, Tennessee, Republican., Mississippi, Republicans again, Kansas Republican, Indiana Republican, Kentucky Republican, only New Jersey democrat.

    Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, even signed on to the attempt to simply throw away the votes in other states and overthrow the democracy. Do you imagine they would do that and not rig those machines? They are trying to rig by lawsuit, States using verifable paper voting, while they are are using riggable election machines without paper trail. Do you imagine they haven't been rigging those machines, yet they would try to rig other states?

    https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/Appel-Freeholders-2019.pdf

    "Whoever programs the computer decides what election results are reported by the computer inside the voting machine":

    You need 100% paper audit trail verified voting machines in every election from now on.

    You need mail-in ballots with the tracking through USPS. The system DeJoy removed. If an Amazon package can be tracked through the postal service then so can the ballots.

    You need to ensure everyone can vote, no more Republican voter suppression.

    Paper trails everywhere, everything verifable.

    Then see how these 80%+ Trump districts you actually see.

    It should be clear from the overt attempts to corrupt the elections, that Republicans have been covertly corrupting them for years. Republican wins are not real, they're elected officials are not elected. A genuine choice of the people, wants more verification of votes and more voters! Republicans want the opposite, so they are not the genuine winner of elections.

    1. Sandtitz Silver badge
      Boffin

      Re: Paxton

      "Did Trump really get so many more votes than even Reagan? Yet he's approval rating is in the dumps. So no. Republicans will be rigging those paperless voting machines, they keep insisting on using each election."

      I wouldn't be surprised that Trump got more votes than Reagan in 1984 for the simple fact that the US population has grown ~40% (~100 million people) since back then, and the electorate has probably grown in proportion. In 1984 the population was about 238 million, and in 2020 there were around that many people eligible vote. The turnout was also now more massive than back then too (67% vs 53%)

      Last time either candidate got less votes than Reagan was in 2000 when both Bush and Gore scored less.

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Google will announce soon it's going to open some kind of HQ/Lab/whetever in Texas...

    .... and the lawsuit will dissolve like snow in the desert...

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Google will announce soon it's going to open some kind of HQ/Lab/whetever in Texas...

      .. or a Trump company profit, to stay in context.

      :)

    2. Trigonoceps occipitalis

      Re: Google will announce soon it's going to open some kind of HQ/Lab/whetever in Texas...

      Would that be snow in the world's largest desert - Antarctica?

      (Yes I know, who's being a smart arse?)

      Doubling down, snow melts when hot.

    3. martinusher Silver badge

      Re: Google will announce soon it's going to open some kind of HQ/Lab/whetever in Texas...

      When the air is really dry, like over a desert, then you're quite likely to get virga instead of rain or snow -- the precipitation evaporates before it hits the ground.

      It actually does rain and snow in many deserts, just not that often.

      (But I know what you mean, we're just playing at splitting hairs.....)

  6. Falmari Silver badge

    Damming Indictment

    To a casual outside observer this article seems to be a damming indictment of the US legal system. Ken Paxton is a State Attorney General, so rightly or wrongly assumed to be highly qualified and must really know the legal profession well, after all he has got to the level of Attorney General.

    But he believes hence twitter and videos, that the Arbitrator for the US legal system is not the Courts of the USA. But an entirely different court, the court of public opinion.

    I maybe wrong but you can see how it would look to an outside casual observer.

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