Wow. @OrrinHatch just dropped a 🔥 letter to FTC suggesting antitrust questions around Google need another look hatch.senate.gov/public/index.c…
This is quite significant coming from Senator Hatch's office.
Senator Hatch was 1 of the key agitators 20 years ago in the months leading up to U.S. v Microsoft, the last major antitrust case in the consumer tech space. He's also the longest serving Senator on the key committee.
Senator Hatch was 1 of the key agitators 20 years ago in the months leading up to U.S. v Microsoft, the last major antitrust case in the consumer tech space. He's also the longest serving Senator on the key committee.
In the letter, @senorrinhatch Hatch calls out the 60 Minutes segment that won the ratings that evening by being played in ~9mn households showing Google's search bias: cbsnews.com/news/how-did-g…
Hatch cites a recent letter by @SenBlumenthal and @SenMarkey calling for a probe into Android's questionable privacy practices. markey.senate.gov/news/press-rel…
.@senorrinhatch suggests previous FTC rulings on Google haven't aged well, citing the closure of the search bias investigation in '13 & approval of the AdMob acquisition. ftc.gov/sites/default/… 
Senator Hatch brings up the FTC competition staff memo that was accidentally leaked to the WSJ in '15 and noted the commitments have expired. wsj.com/articles/insid…
Hatch points to a bipartisan letter from @AGKarlRacine and @SeanReyesUT (Utah & DC attorneys general) from 2016 which specifically focuses on local search. slideshare.net/gesterling/goo…
Finally, Senator Hatch references a tough exchange he had with former FTC Chair Edith Ramirez, citing the fact that new evidence shows Google is harming consumers.
