[diogenes4]

I really wish we could convince the anti-trust efforts to focus on search quality over competition—it's a lot more relevant to google's actual harm than comparison to competitors, especially when the competitors are guilty of much of the same harmful behavior. There are good parallels in abuse of this power in the app stores offered by the cell phone manufacturers.

[bee_rider]

Isn’t the focus on competition a big part of anti-trust law? I thought it was the whole point.

Maybe we need some more general expanded consumer protection laws.

[diogenes4]

It is, but it doesn't have to be. We certainly don't have another term for regulating the general abuse of the public by a private entity other than "anti-trust".