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Congress takes notice of GOOG and evil
A few weeks ago I had written up my view of Google having a game theorist work the spectrum auction to get their way without spending the money. Seems like folks in Congress are also sniffing the same smells here.
— quoting the bloomberg article —
Google `Gamed’ Airwave Sale, Republican Lawmakers Say (Update1)
April 15 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc. manipulated a U.S. government spectrum auction by bidding just enough to trigger rules that will open a nationwide set of airwaves to any device and then walking away, Republican lawmakers said.