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steve2470

(37,457 posts)
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 09:41 PM Sep 2018

Louisiana attorney general to ask Sessions to break up Google, Facebook, Twitter

Source: Mercury News

Political momentum for a crackdown on Silicon Valley’s social media giants got a boost this week when a state attorney general said he would tell U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions next week that Google, Facebook and Twitter should be broken up.

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry wants the federal government to do to the social media firms what it did to Standard Oil in 1911, according to a Louisiana newspaper report Tuesday.

The government smashed up Standard using antitrust laws, forcing it to break into 34 business pieces. Landry is accusing the tech behemoths of suppressing conservative views and stifling competition, on top of infringing on antitrust laws, The Advocate reported.

“This can’t be fixed legislatively,” Landry told the paper. “We need to go to court with an antitrust suit.”

Read more: https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/19/louisiana-attorney-general-to-ask-sessions-to-break-up-google-facebook-twitter/

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Louisiana attorney general to ask Sessions to break up Google, Facebook, Twitter (Original Post) steve2470 Sep 2018 OP
Yeh, read this in the paper. Funny how Facebook was A-OK during the Drumph campaign Kajun Gal Sep 2018 #1
LOL, what a fucking idiot RhodeIslandOne Sep 2018 #2
"...suppressing conservative views..." ! pangaia Sep 2018 #3
What a moron. cstanleytech Sep 2018 #4
google is a lot more than a search website Merlot Sep 2018 #11
In the end though people have many other options than to use Google they are choosing to do cstanleytech Sep 2018 #12
There is plenty of choice in the marketplace. C_U_L8R Sep 2018 #5
yet another politicion pokeing his noze into something where it belongs . hem AllaN01Bear Sep 2018 #6
Someone should ask him specifically Docreed2003 Sep 2018 #7
The repubs want small government except when they don't KWR65 Sep 2018 #8
This is crazy Colombo123 Sep 2018 #9
I suggest that the Louisiana Attorney General read the Standard Oil Case onenote Sep 2018 #10
Yea. And that will happen.....never. Idiot. paleotn Sep 2018 #13
 

Kajun Gal

(1,907 posts)
1. Yeh, read this in the paper. Funny how Facebook was A-OK during the Drumph campaign
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 09:46 PM
Sep 2018

when they spread all the fake Hillary crap.

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
3. "...suppressing conservative views..." !
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 09:47 PM
Sep 2018

Is he freakin' kidding !!!!









Actually ON EDIT---

Conservative 'views' SHOULD be suppressed because they have no basis in fact.

cstanleytech

(26,337 posts)
4. What a moron.
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 09:50 PM
Sep 2018

Breaking up Google is stupid because its just a website that conducts searches largely and people are choosing to use it even though there are alternatives just like there are alternatives to Twitter and Facebook.

Merlot

(9,696 posts)
11. google is a lot more than a search website
Thu Sep 20, 2018, 12:45 AM
Sep 2018

google has gmail, google maps (the cars that drive around maping us), and google docs to name a few. google basically wants to own the internet. google is mining user experiences every minute of every day. If you browse at a store and then see an ad for the exact thing you were browsing for, that's google.

googles motto of "don't be evil" isn't saying they aren't evil, it's admonishing us not to be evil.

I would love to see google broken up, they have way to much information and power. Same for facebook. twitter, I don't know how much information they collect so can't comment.

It would be ironic if for all the help FB and google gave trumpft to be broken up by trumpft.

cstanleytech

(26,337 posts)
12. In the end though people have many other options than to use Google they are choosing to do
Thu Sep 20, 2018, 07:43 AM
Sep 2018

so though.

C_U_L8R

(45,026 posts)
5. There is plenty of choice in the marketplace.
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 09:51 PM
Sep 2018

And hey, if conservatives don't like what's available, they're free to start their own. This is just more rightwing stupidity.

Docreed2003

(16,886 posts)
7. Someone should ask him specifically
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 09:52 PM
Sep 2018

What "conservative speech" he has a problem with Facebook or Twitter banning

onenote

(42,794 posts)
10. I suggest that the Louisiana Attorney General read the Standard Oil Case
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 11:08 PM
Sep 2018

He clearly has never done so.

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