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Google’s Deep Pockets to Fuel Antitrust Lawyers?

July 4th, 2006 by Dan Gillmor

Reuters: Google says bill could spark antitrust fight. Google warned on Tuesday it will not hesitate to file antitrust complaints in the United States if high-speed Internet providers abuse the market power they could receive from U.S. legislators.

Good for Google. As Congress prepares to give the big telecom players — the phone and cable companies — the means with which to turn the Net into their own walled gardens, we’ll need the deep-pocketed companies like Google to challenge them.

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