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Canada Competition Bureau sues Google for anti-competitive conduct in online ads

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Corporations already control all aspects of our economy. Whether they are foreign or 'benevolent domestic corporations' - as you seem to think they are, doesn't really matter. The insane flood of immigration and TFWs, which destroyed our housing, healthcare, justice systems, and lowered per-capita GDP was 100% at the behest of the benevolent domestic corporations, and all of the negative knock-on effects were known b…

Doesn’t this make the case specifically for better government and regulations rather than more “competition”? Won’t all of that competition simply do the same thing vis a vis TFW? Which by the way seems like a crazy program they got going on up there. It seems like the companies there are using them as scabs for non-unionized jobs.

> Doesn’t this make the case specifically for better government and regulations rather than more “competition”?

Yes, we need 'better government and regulations', not just 'more regulations'. It's literally the current government's regulation changes which allowed the insane levels of immigration, TFWs, students, etc.

> Which by the way seems like a crazy program they got going on up there. It seems like the companies there are using them as scabs for non-unionized jobs.

Yup, it's textbook wage suppression.

Re: Canada Competition Bureau sues Google for anti-competitive conduct in online ads

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These worldwide anti-competitive lawsuit and penalty news are getting far too frequent that it makes me wonder if any of it is working at all. Meanwhile, there are some talks about some big impactful interventions. But again, they have remained just that - talks. Am I paranoid to think that these are just diversions with no real consequences? If not, why are we not seeing any improvement on the ground?

The "corrective action" from all these lawsuits have not been decided on or have not been put into place, that's why you're not seeing results yet. The legal system works exceptionally slowly (while Google has already made its money before the regulators woke up).

Re: Canada Competition Bureau sues Google for anti-competitive conduct in online ads

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The sharks are circling and by "sharks" I mean the same people who lobby the government for link taxes and publish puff pieces on politicians who go after their business rivals.

I just want my government to enforce a law that's already on the books, which Google has been violating for ~10 years now.
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