Jason Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 Google and Facebook reportedly agreed to help each other against potential antitrust action WWW.CNBC.COM Google and Facebook pledged to help each other if they ever faced an antitrust investigation into their deal to work together in online advertising, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Quote Google and Facebook reportedly made a deal in September 2018 in which Facebook agreed not to compete with Google’s online advertising tools. In return, the social media giant was given “special treatment” when it used them itself, according to the Journal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 Is this what "collusion" smells like?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 Ooooopppppppsssssiiiiieeeeessss this is us regulating ourselves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwinIon Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 No that seems like a pretty clear cut case of illegality. I don't expect most of the anti-trust lawsuits filed recently to go anywhere, but this has massive fine written all over it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 23, 2020 Author Share Posted December 23, 2020 27 minutes ago, TwinIon said: No that seems like a pretty clear cut case of illegality. I don't expect most of the anti-trust lawsuits filed recently to go anywhere, but this has massive fine written all over it. And apparently normally you have to prove harm to consumers in an antitrust case, but not for what they've done here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 11 minutes ago, Jason said: And apparently normally you have to prove harm to consumers in an antitrust case, but not for what they've done here. Worth noting that the "no harm to consumers" theory is a reagan era (iirc) change to antitrust enforcement that we haven't come back from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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