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by tomschlick 1057 days ago
The FTC isn't going to do anything as Google/Alphabet is a big donor to the Democrats.

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/alphabet-inc/recipients?id=...

Here is them lobbying specifically around antitrust reform legislation: https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/bills/specific_...

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So are Amazon:

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/amazon-com/recipients?id=D0...

and Microsoft:

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/microsoft-inc/recipients?id...

And yet we see high profile activity against them from the current FTC.

? This is provably false. FTC filed 6 months ago.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/24/technology/google-ads-law...

n.b. I've found a lot of comfort by conciously rolling away from any subject that leads me to do "They"-ing, i.e. name an enormously large group, then talk about them as a unit. The more I avoid it, the more I realize how prevalent it became and drives how a lot of us feel society shifted.

It's called saving appearances.
So your position is, they'll never do it, and if they did, it's fake. Sounds like self-peasantization.
The people working at the FTC have been involved in revolving doors in the very industries they're trying to break up.

It's a simple observation. They don't have the interest to make it pass but they still have to do it to save face.

You're right, but not because of politics.

FTC is on a losing streak, with the latest fiasco being the Microsoft Activision acquisition fiasco.

Republicans control the house. That's who would have to pass any legislation. FTC is non-partisan.