A US judge declines to order Jonathan Kanter's recusal from the DOJ's ad antitrust lawsuit against Google, after the company cited his past work for its critics
The search giant's historic antitrust trial began this week. Washington Post : Judge rejects Google claim that DOJ's Jonathan Kanter is improperly biased Justin Diaz / Android Headlines : Judge says DOJ antitrust lead lawyer isn't biased against Google Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg : Google Barred From Claim DOJ's Kanter Is Biased in Ad Tech Feud Inyoung Choi / NBC News : DOJ v. Google: Landmark antitrust case wraps up first week Malak Saleh / Engadget : Google settles California lawsuit over its location-privacy practices Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register : Google throws California $93M to make location tracking lawsuit disappear Daily Breeze : Google and California reach $93 million settlement in location tracking case X: @evan_greer : Good. Google's idea of “bias” is “any regulator who doesn't just let us know whatever the fuck we want with no oversight or accountability.” They've been trying to smear @JusticeATR head Jonathan Kanter from day one. It's good that the DOJ is standing up to Big Tech bullying [image] Luther Lowe / @lutherlowe : The judge called Google's motion to disqualify Kanter “ad hominem”... a “red herring”... and “a mistake” Overall this has been a horrible week for Google and an incredible one for the DOJ. Kyle Morse / @kyle_a_morse : 👏🏻 LOVE 👏🏻 TO 👏🏻 SEE 👏🏻 IT 👏🏻 Amazing that @google's bogus bias claims were struck down in the DOJ's AdTech case. Next landmark antitrust case is coming round the corner! [image] Jason Kint / @jason_kint : Finally, Samsung and Google are super super tight of course. There will be 20 minutes in closed session tomorrow about the confidential details of their deal. We already say an email between them stating, “This allows more and more to start acting as one unit to the market.” /9 Jason Kint / @jason_kint : By the way, the public should be outraged by this idea, “Chrome exists to serve Google Search,” inside Google. Chrome is a browser. It has ‘user agent’ status. It exhibits to serve the user - full stop. If it serves anyone but the user, it's in violation. /8 @techemails : Google: “Antitrust Basics for Search Team” March 2011 [image]