Google Generates Grousing
September 22, 2010
Short honk: More legal storms seem to be forming around Google.
The TechEye.net article, “Google Needs To Be Sued for Playing Monopoly” strikes us as one of the more aggressive write ups in the last week or so. The story asserts that the global giant’s even bigger looming shadow will negatively cast on the economy. Quite an assertion.
Remember the antitrust threat that once Microsoft posed, which was tackled by the Department of Justice’s blocking Microsoft from extending its monopoly vertically into the broader economy. TechEye asserts: “Google was a vastly more serious antitrust threat to consumers and the economy than Microsoft was,” and then suggests that antitrust authorities have aided and abetted Google’s vertical monopolization. Yikes.
According to the article, “there was no net-economic growth or job creation from Google’s “free” Internet sector model,” and that, “all it creates is a deflationary price spiral, negative growth, property devaluation, and hundreds of thousands of job losses in over 20 industries.” The stated report asks for action by the DOJ before it is too late. Is it just another panic assertion about Googzilla?
To top off the TechEye assertion, we noted that “YouTube to Appeal German Court’s Copyright Ruling” and that the Google Street View service seems to be heading toward some interesting legislation about this type of Google service. See “Germany vs. Google StreetView”.
Nation states can be pesky critters. That’s what happens when you have citizens, police, and other trappings of sovereign power.
Harleena Singh, September 22, 2010
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