Canada's Antitrust Watchdog Sues Google Alleging Anti-Competitive Conduct in Advertising

Canada's Competition Bureau is suing Alphabet's Google over alleged anti-competitive conduct in online advertising, the antitrust watchdog said on Thursday. From a report: The Competition Bureau, in a statement, said it had filed an application with the Competition Tribunal seeking an order that, among other things, requires Google to sell two of its ad tech tools. It is also seeking a penalty from Google to promote compliance with Canada's competition laws, the statement said.

Google said the complaint "ignores the intense competition where ad buyers and sellers have plenty of choice and we look forward to making our case in court." [...] "Our advertising technology tools help websites and apps fund their content, and enable businesses of all sizes to effectively reach new customers," Dan Taylor, VP of Global Ads, Google said in a statement.

Im going back about 10 or 15 years

[twinirondrives]

But I wonder what made them change their minds once again...?

Leading from behind

[Some Guy]

There goes Canada leading from behind again.

Wait for everyone else to go after them first, then pile on.

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[Excelcia]

Canada's Antitrust Watchdog

TBH I was surprised we have one of those.

There goes Canada leading from behind again.

Wait for everyone else to go after them first, then pile on.

Why bother having a whole raft of lawyers to duplicate the infrastructure already in place by countries that have far more people and investment than we do? We have 30 million people in an area the size of Europe, part of Asia, and most of the Middle East combined [twimg.com]. In this era of globalization, some countries specialize in resources, some in manufacturing, some in fintech, some in silicon... why not some in business law.

So yes, absolutely, I'd rather let some other

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[dskoll]

We're actually up to 40 million people now. Just sayin'.

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[Pieroxy]

Canada is 9,984,670 km2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada [wikipedia.org]) while Europe is 10,180,000 km2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe [wikipedia.org]).

Something is wrong with your map. Canada is smaller than Europe.

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[Pieroxy]

Maybe the poster of your image fell into this trap: https://x.com/balajivis/status/1282315287212122112/photo/1 [x.com]

The earth being not flat, you can't just superimpose two countries on a flat map of it. Then again, X being X, maybe the conclusion is "stop reading X and believing what you see".

25%

[fluffernutter]

Trump is going to impose a 25% tariff and kill basically half our businesses overnight. We have to get money from somewhere I guess.

It's about time!

[davecb]

I used to work in the industry, and consider what Google is doing to be a form of "moral hazard". It's about time my government paid attention.