Ten U.S. states sue Google on antitrust grounds in internet ads. They aren't being timid about it: "Google has repeatedly and brazenly violated antitrust and consumer protection laws. Its modus operandi is to monopolize and misrepresent." 🔥🔥🔥texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/…
"Conversely, nearly every consumer goods company, e-commerce entity, and small business now depend on Google as their respective middleman for purchasing display ads... Google is pitcher, batter, and umpire, all at the same time" ⚾️🎯
"[Google] also boldly claims that “we’ll never sell your personal information to anyone,” but its entire business model is targeted advertising—the purchase and sale of advertisements targeted to individual users based on their personal information". HERE WE GO!
TIL: "With a newfound hold on publisher ad servers, Google then proceeded to further foreclose publishers’ ability to trade in exchanges. Google imposed a one-exchange-rule on publishers, barring them from routing inventory to more than one exchange at a time." ☠️
What is it about large competitions always having to come up with cutesy project names to label their crimes? Not surprising though that Facebook and Google illegally colluded to share the duopoly ad rents. 
Validating the tax framing: "The monopoly tax Google imposes on American businesses—advertisers like clothing brands, restaurants, and realtors—is a tax that is ultimately borne by American consumers through higher prices and lower quality on the goods, services, and information"
Love this too. Almost perfectly timed with Facebook's horseshit ads: "The open internet is now threatened.. Google has become the controlling node and the central authority for online advertising, which serves as the primary currency enabling a free and open internet".
I'd wear a Sherman shirt: "As a result of Google’s anticompetitive conduct, including its unlawful agreement with Facebook, Google has violated and continues to violate Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1, 2."
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