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Anonymous ID: 74ce78 Nov. 19, 2024, 3:31 a.m. No.22015145   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5155 >>5162 >>5164 >>5307 >>5535 >>5685 >>5748

DOJ to Ask Judge to Force Google to Sell Off Chrome

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/google-sell-chrome/2024/11/18/id/1188549/

 

The Department of Justice will ask a judge to force Google to sell off its Chrome internet browser as part of its recommendations on how the web giant should be punished for illegally monopolizing the internet search market, reports Bloomberg.

 

Antitrust officials also plan to recommend that federal judge Amit Mehta require measures related to artificial intelligence and its Android smartphone operating system and impose data licensing requirements, according to sources who spoke with the news outlet.

 

Mehta branded Google as a ruthless monopolist in a landmark ruling issued in August, saying its ubiquitous search engine had been illegally exploiting its dominance to squash competition and stifle innovation.

 

Google "enjoys an 89.2% share of the market for general search services, which increases to 94.9% on mobile devices," the ruling said.

 

The move would be one of the most aggressive attempts by the Biden administration to curb what it alleges are Big Tech monopolies.

 

Ultimately, however, the reelection of Donald Trump could have the greatest impact over the case.

 

Lee-Anne Mulholland, Google's vice president of regulatory affairs, said the Justice Department "continues to push a radical agenda that goes far beyond the legal issues in this case.

 

"The government putting its thumb on the scale in these ways would harm consumers, developers and American technological leadership at precisely the moment it is most needed," she added.

Anonymous ID: 74ce78 Nov. 19, 2024, 5:13 a.m. No.22015608   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5616

Dem Ariz. Gov.: I'll Work With Trump on Border Security If Families Aren't Harmed

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/border-arizona-hobbs-trump-fentanyl-deportation/2024/11/18/id/1188560/

 

 

Dem Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs said Monday she is willing to work with President-elect Donald Trump’s new administration on border security issues like stopping fentanyl trafficking, but not in areas that she said could harm Arizona families such as mass deportation.

 

Hobbs traveled to the Arizona-Mexico border on Monday to trumpet her state’s National Guard work helping crack down on smuggling of the deadly synthetic opioid into the U.S. through Nogales, Arizona. More than half of all border seizures of the drug are made in Nogales.

 

“Border security was a core issue of the Trump campaign," Hobbs told reporters as vehicles moved behind her. “I look forward to having conversations with the incoming president about Arizona’s needs, including border security and the work we’ve done here to build these partnerships that are actually producing results and how we can continue those partnerships under his administration.”

 

But, she added, there are Arizona families who “are worried about threats from the Trump administration as well.”

 

“I will not tolerate actions that harm Arizonans, that harm our communities and quite honestly, divert resources from providing real security at our border,” Hobbs said.

 

Trump has promised to conduct the largest deportation operation in American history, something that would upend the lives of the 11 million people living in the United States without authorization, many of whom have family members who are U.S. citizens.

 

“I will stand up to protect Arizonans from harm by the federal government, from anyone," Hobbs said, but “I’m not going to comment on hypotheticals. We don’t know what a mass deportation plan will look like, what resources it will involve.”

 

Hobbs also touted Operation Secure, her initiative deploying the National Guard to assist local and federal enforcement in Arizona's border communities like Nogales. The governor said 170 Arizona National Guard members are assigned to counterdrug efforts statewide, including 40 at the border in Nogales.

 

The governor's border visit comes less than two weeks after Democrats suffered blistering losses at the polls in Arizona, with Trump defeating Vice President Kamala Harris by a margin of about 185,000 votes statewide and beefing up the Republican majority in the Arizona Legislature.

 

Hobbs said Monday that border security is not a “Republican or Democratic issue” and she will work with “anyone” to keep the border safe.

 

Troy Miller, acting head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, also spoke at the news conference and called National Guard members “a critical force multiplier” for his agency's operations at the Nogales port.

 

“The scope of this problem is too large and the stakes are too high for us to do this work alone,” Miller said. “That’s why I’m so proud of the partnerships we have built, especially the ones right here in Arizona.”

Anonymous ID: 74ce78 Nov. 19, 2024, 5:22 a.m. No.22015667   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5698

They'll do it for DC but not the rest of the US.

 

Mace Bill Pushes Trans Ban on Capitol Restrooms

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/trans-restrooms-capitol/2024/11/18/id/1188559/

 

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., on Monday introduced a bill to bar transgender women from using the women's restroom on Capitol Hill.

 

Initially, Mace had planned to introduce her legislation as a privileged resolution on Monday evening, one source told The Hill, a strategy that would have required House leadership to schedule a vote within two legislative days. However, those plans were shelved due to ongoing negotiations with leadership over the best path forward.

 

Mace is now advocating, according to the source, for the measure to be included in the rules package for the 119th Congress or to be brought to the floor as a standalone rule for a direct vote. The House will vote on the rules package in early January. If neither options materialize, Mace is prepared to force a vote on the legislation.

 

The legislation comes on the heels of Delaware electing the first openly transgender member of Congress, Democrat Rep.-elect Sarah McBride.

Anonymous ID: 74ce78 Nov. 19, 2024, 5:34 a.m. No.22015733   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5748

RNC Chair Whatley: Pa. Officials May Face Prosecution

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/rnc-co-chair-michael-whatley/2024/11/18/id/1188513/

 

Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley said on Monday that the Bucks County, Pennsylvania commissioners who allowed undated mail-in ballots to be counted in the recent general election could face criminal prosecution.

 

Whatley told The Daily Caller in an interview on Monday, "We have been very clear that we are going to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law, folks that are not following the law, that are trying to cheat in these elections. We're going to pursue every legal means that we can against these officials for improperly saying that they're going to count these ballots."

 

He added that the RNC is exploring whether one of the commissioners could be criminally prosecuted for comments she made in a meeting last Thursday, in which she stated that, "precedent by a court doesn't matter anymore in this country" because "people violate laws anytime they want."

 

Whatley said that statement deserves investigation.

 

"We certainly are exploring that right now, and we will pursue this to the fullest extent that we can," Whatley said.

 

The RNC has already filed a lawsuit against all 67 county boards of elections in Pennsylvania seeking to enforce the state's requirement that voters include the date on mail-in ballots. The RNC and Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick alleged that the Democratic county commissioners in Bucks County voted to allow 405 undated and misdated mail-in ballots.

 

"By counting undated and misdated mail ballots for the 2024 General Election, they are disobeying this Court's commands many times over," the RNC said in the lawsuit.