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US Government preparing to launch Antitrust and Censorship probe into Google

 
 
 
 
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WOW! Just WOW! Trump has finally started to do something. First it was the 5% tariffs on Mexican products over the invasion and now this!

We here at the EUTimes have long been complaining that Google has censored us in their search results where we do not appear in their results AT ALL due to severe mass censorship of their search results despite our SEO being perfectly taken care of and on top of that Google has also banned our Adsense account FOR SUPPORTING DONALD TRUMP back in 2017.

In the mean time we turned against Trump not because Google banned our Adsense but because we saw that Trump didn’t keep his promises. Now that Trump has finally started to do stuff that we all expected him to do, surely we will support him again.

So anyway, hopefully after this antitrust probe, Google will reinstate our Adsense account and we will start to perform better in their biased search results.

For those that do not know, we declared war on Google back in 2017 and we contacted the DOJ, FTC and EU antitrust back in January 2019 to raise awareness and open disputes about this mass censorship happening at Google. We’re not saying this is our doing but surely our opinion was taken into consideration. Google did end up being fined $1.7 billion shortly after that.

Here’s the report by RT:

Google risks falling under scrutiny again as the US Department of Justice (DOJ) gears up to investigate the IT giant after studying its ads and search policies, new reports say.

The DOJ is considering launching an antitrust investigation into Google, the Wall Street Journal wrote on Friday, citing sources. The story was quickly confirmed by several other media outlets.

The agency had reportedly decided to gear up against the Silicon Valley-based company after receiving several complaints, referred to it by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). It is unclear what stage the government’s move is at, as some sources said the DOJ was making “early steps” in launching the probe, while others told reporters that it was “exploring” whether to do it.

The focus of the possible investigation was also not specified. However, it was mentioned that the government taskforce had been examining Google’s advertising and search practices. The company and the DOJ declined to comment on the issue.

The news feeds into growing concerns that tech giants like Google have become too influential on the global market. In March, the European Commission slapped the company with a €1.5 billion fine ($1.7 billion) for “abusive practices in online advertising.”

The same claims were echoed in the US, where some of the Democratic 2020 hopefuls, like Senator Elizabeth Warren, spearheaded a call to “break up” Google and other IT giants, such as Facebook and Amazon.

Google has been under scrutiny in recent years over allegations of political bias and the way it tackles ‘fake news.’ The company’s chief, Sundar Pichai, was grilled in Congress last December. During the exchange with the politicians on Capitol Hill, he had to defend things like pictures of President Donald Trump appearing after someone had Googled the word ‘idiot.’

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