The FTC's reported closing of its Google seek bent investigation, with no absolute acknowledged adjustment mechanism, and a appropriate new self-enforcement antitrust antecedent allegedly alone accessible to Google, raises austere questions about the candor of the FTC's law administration activity and whether the FTC accords Google with appropriate analysis not accessible to added companies.
Why didn't the FTC amusement Google like they advised Microsoft in the 90s, even while they accept been accomplishing the aforementioned and even worse things? Why did they bead their analysis if agents and State Attorneys General acclaim case and the European Union is prosecuting Google? Scott Cleland has some questions that conceivably you may wish to ask your representative. Disclaimer: Scott Cleland is not a 100-percent cold analyzer of Google. That said, we anticipate his assessment is still valid. —Ed
This amount raises many more adverse questions than the top ten changing questions aloft in this piece, but these questions aught in on abounding of the a lot of audacious irregularities for Congressional overseers, the media and government watchdogs to chase up on.
1. Why does the FTC accept that they can assurance Google to anxiously self-enforce: if Google abandoned the FTC's Google-Buzz acknowledged aloofness consent decree in just eight months with the Google Safari hack; and if Google abominably hoodwinked the FTC with voluntary promises to prematurely shut down its Google Street View WiFi investigation, if the FCC's investigation afterwards assured that Google systematically biased its Street View WiFi accomplishments to the accessible and the FTC, and "deliberately impeded and delayed" the FCC's investigation?
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2. Why is the FTC affording Google a appropriate autonomous self-enforcement accepted beneath Section 5, if it sued Intel beneath its Section 5 ascendancy and appropriate an acknowledged consent decree afterwards a agnate continued analysis and a analogously able agents advocacy for prosecution?
3. Why does Google accreditation a appropriate self-enforcement standard, if Google owns the single affliction antitrust and privacy record of any above U.S. corporation; has absolute clue records of misrepresentation and obstruction of justice; and owns an apparent culture of unaccountability? (Is the FTC ambience a abnormal new antecedent that the affliction antitrust recidivist warrants the a lot of charity from prosecution— anon contradicting the Administration's affiance of able antitrust enforcement?)
4. How does it assure American consumers from ambiguous practices for the FTC to blitz to abutting its 20-month-long Google seek bent investigation, if cat-and-mouse just a few weeks longer, would let the FTC apprentice what acknowledged customer protections Google will activity European-consumers for deceptively biasing seek results? (And why isn't this acutely actual advice analytical to advancement the candor of the FTC's analysis and its law administration process?)
5. How can FTC Commissioners accurately affirmation there is bereft affirmation to arraign Google, if they are absolutely acquainted that the FTC has not approved to appraise the potentially a lot of incriminating affirmation proving Google anti-competitive seek bias absorbed articular by the Texas Attorney General? (How does it beforehand the candor of their law administration activity for the FTC to aboveboard attending the added way on this?)
6. Why are FTC Commissioners allegedly traveling out of their way to arrange aegis of Google from the case and accountability, if their agents investigators recommended prosecution, the FTC Chairman again threatened prosecution, State Attorneys General acclaim prosecution, and the EU authorities are prosecuting Google? (How does closing down the analysis bigger serve customer aegis interests actuality than befitting it open?)
7. If able 240 actor American consumers aloof seek if commonly and opaquely accouterment them with biased seek is not a ambiguous business practice, what is? (Is the FTC ambience a new antecedent actuality that bribery in fact can be net-good for consumers if accompanied with abundant accessory addition and customer benefits?)
8. Why did the FTC allegedly achieve it could not arraign Google beneath Section 5 if the FTC: recently did with Intel; argued the FTC was best ill-fitted to investigate Google because of Section 5; the FTC signaled its investigation begin Google Section 5 violations; and the FTC has begin Google has violated Section 5 on aloofness twice?
9. In the accomplished contour antitrust analysis of the 21st century, how abounding times did the FTC Commissioners accommodated about and/or in bankrupt affair to altercate this important Google antitrust investigation? (Under the Sunshine Act, no added than two FTC commissioners may accommodated calm in private, unless the affair of the clandestine amount is about reported. It appears from the FTC's accessible records, (if they are accurate) that the abounding FTC has not met either about or in bankrupt affair to discuss, agitation or added investigate the claim and strengths of the FTC staff's advocacy to arraign Google for seek bias. If the abounding commision did not accommodated calm to altercate the Google case, like it has in antitrust cases involving added companies beneath antitrust investigation, this would add yet addition FTC appropriate Google analysis abnormality to the abounding accurate actuality and before. Why would Google accreditation such appropriate benign activity analysis from the FTC?)
10. Why accept DOJ-Google antitrust investigations yielded a 4-0 almanac of acknowledged antitrust administration activity or acknowledged settlement, and the FTC-Google antitrust investigations accept yielded an 0-3 almanac of no acknowledged antitrust administration activity or acknowledged settlement? (DOJ: 2008, 2010, 2011, & 2011; FTC: 2007, 2010; & 2013.)
These amount questions acerb advance that the Google seek bent botheration will not go abroad — as abundant as Google and the FTC allegedly wish them to — and will abide to dog Google and the FTC until appropriately and adequately bound by the all-embracing law administration process.
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