• ufra
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    33 years ago

    This came up a little while back and it seemed a bit like lawyers and government puffing themselves up, but rereading some of these quotes from Reuters makes it interesting.

    Hard to believe they would put this in writing:

    The word “antitrust” was used no fewer than 20 times in the agreement, RT noted.

    But if this is accurate, then maybe the invincible mindset is more engrained :

    Google has written the accusations off as “extremely common” and “inaccurate”.

    And this just seems like fraud:

    In the deal’s fourth year the social media company was to spend half a billion dollars annually for Google-run ad auctions,”