TechFreedom will host a parliamentary-style lunch debate on Friday, September 28, 2012, to discuss the FTC’s antitrust investigation of Google.  As the company has evolved, expanding outward from its core search engine product, it has come to challenge a range of other firms and threaten their business models. This has, in turn, caused antitrust regulators to investigate its conduct, essentially questioning whether Google’s market position obligates it to treat competitors neutrally. The panel of four distinguished commenters will discuss the question “Should the FTC Sue Google Over Search?”

Arguing “Yes” will be:

Arguing “No” will be:

Questions?

Email contact@techfreedom.org . The event will be livestreamed here  beginning at 12:15 PM ET and you can follow the conversation on Twitter at #GoogleFTC.

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TechFreedom’s free ebook, “ The Next Digital Decade: Essays on the Future of the Internet ” includes a chapter on search engine regulation, summarized in the book’s introduction The entire Next Digital Decade book can be downloaded as a free PDF or purchased in hardcover.

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