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How to Hide a $2 Trillion (Google) Antitrust Trial (www.thebignewsletter.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/5486771

We did an analysis of the Google antitrust trial. Last week, over half of the trial was held behind closed doors because the judge, Amit Mehta, is deferring to Google on the need for secrecy.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Tl;dr: judge has no clue about tech industry and Google keeps most of the interesting parts and documents of the trial closed to the public, with the argument it would be "clickbait".

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's not even a proper usage of the term clickbait. I wonder whether the lawyers actually know that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We can't show it because it could be disturbing! Uh, distributed, eh distorted?

Also guy in screenshot looks like bill gates lol

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

That is Bill Gates. The article has a 40 minute video of 'highlights' of a deposition he did in the late 90s.