BY FRANK VERNUCCIO
Several years ago, in a
Washington Times article, I
proposed that outlets such as
Facebook, Twitter and Google
be treated as “common carriers.”
Common carriers, such
as airlines and railroads, are
not allowed to discriminate
against customers based on
race, color, creed or political
viewpoint. The same should
apply to internet giants.
Section 230 of the Communications
Decency Act (CDA)
frees these corporate giants
of certain liability in return
for allowing all to post online.
It also provides, according
to Internet Association.
org, the right to exclude users
under certain conditions.
Having violated the provision
mandating fair use by all, 230
should be repealed.
There are other solutions
to the growing power of internet
giants to dominate the
national conversation and
engage in practices intended
to exclude the growth of competing
services.
Texas Attorney General
Ken Paxton recently announced
that his state is leading
a multistate coalition in
a lawsuit against Google for
multiple violations of federal
and state antitrust and
consumer protection laws,
including anticompetitive
BY THOMAS X. CASEY
The East Bronx History Forum
and the Huntington Free
Library are pleased to announce
the Forum will hold
its 152th meeting on Wednesday,
February 17th at 8:00 PM
with a ZOOM presentation by
Forum member Susan Vernon
Kehr, “The Rise & Fall of the
Village of East Baychester,
conduct, exclusionary practices
and deceptive misrepresentations
with its role in the multi-trillion
dollar online display advertising
monopolization of online-display
advertising includes an
anticompetitive agreement
with Facebook, making misrepresentations
customers, and suppressing
competition.
According to a release from
Paxton, Google competes directly
against the buyers and
sellers they separately represent—
all while operating the
largest exchange on which
these ad products are bought
and sold. Google’s exchange
trades in billions of ad impressions
a day.
Specifi cally, Paxton revealed
that Google has repeatedly
and brazenly violated
antitrust and consumer protection
laws, by monopolizing
and misrepresenting its
business practices. “Google
uses its powerful position
on every side of the online
display markets to unlawfully
exclude competition. It
also boldly claims that ‘we’ll
never sell your personal information
entire business model is targeted
advertising—the purchase
and sale of advertisements
targeted to individual
Bronx NY.
in connection
industry. Google’s
to users and
to anyone,’ but its
The Bronx has witnessed
a tremendous population
users based on their personal
information.
growth with the introduction
of the various railroads
and subway lines. About 100
years ago, the last undeveloped
area was located in the
Northeast section, in the village
of Baychester. The name
came from the combination of
Pelham Bay and the Town of
Westchester to the south. In
1888, the town had their own
Postmaster, William A. Hallett
until the NYC consolidation of
1898. The New York Yankees
considered the area for their
home as well as the Curtis
Airport that decided to build
in Queens. Things changed in
1950’s with highway development,
Freedomland and Co-op
City. However, the single-family
homes in the remained in
the shadows of the towers.
Susan Kehr will lead the
presentation of the history
and evolution of the Village
of Baychester that still exists
today. We will explore
what changes occurred over
time and the effects of those
changes, with maps and pictures.
Susan’s research of the
inhabitants of Baychester led
to the creation of a Baychester
web page from the late 1890s
to the 1960s. It can be found
at baychester.weebly.com.
Susan Kehr is a genealogist
with over 15 years of experience.
She grew up in the
northeast Bronx in the 1950s
and 1960s in a place known
as the Village of Baychester
before getting married and
moving to New Jersey. She
graduated from Christopher
Columbus High School and
BY TONY SALIMBENE
Our 3rd Sunday Post meeting
will be the 21st, same time
as usual, standby for the exact
location or remote log-in
from the commander.
I hope everyone made it
ok in the big snow. I’m still
cleaning up! See ya in May lol.
Always help a vet in need or
neighbor. That was a dangerous
one.
Nice Auxiliary coverage of
activities in this paper. Good
job, keep up the good work!
Sick call: Understand Tony
F is out but in rehab. Wish
him the best to continue the
fi ght.
Councilmember Mark
Gjonaj sponsors a food bank,
Fridays till 6:30 at the Greek
Church, Pelham Bay, stop by,
don’t be shy!
Here are a few numbers
you may need:
American Legion 888.4legion
Bronx VA 718.584.9000
Bx CB 10 718.892.1161
Old Timer Quiz! What was
E.J. Korvets, what does the
name mean, where was it located?
Until Next Time: I don’t
understand why wearing a
mask is so controversial, it’s
to make sure you don’t make
someone else sick too, like a
loved one!
Rutgers University in New
Jersey. Susan was a business
owner and used her knowledge
of information technology
to build websites during
her retirement.
This Presentation is limited
to the fi rst 100 members
and friends that log onto our
Zoom meeting. The East
Bronx History Forum posts
the login details on our web
page at BronxNYC.com. Remember,
we will meet on-line,
at 8:00 pm, Wednesday February
17th.
BRONX TIMES REPORTER,38 FEBRUARY 12-18, 2021 BTR
“Google is a trillion-dollar
monopoly brazenly abusing
its monopolistic power,
going so far as to induce senior
Facebook executives to
agree to a contractual scheme
that undermines the heart of
competitive process. In this
advertising monopoly on an
electronically traded market,
Google is essentially trading
on ‘insider information’ by
acting as the pitcher, catcher,
batter and umpire, all at the
same time. This isn’t the ‘free
market’ at work here. This is
anti-market and illegal under
state and federal law,” said Attorney
General Ken Paxton.
“Google’s monopolization of
the display-advertising industry
and its misleading
business practices stifl e innovation,
limit consumer choice
and reduce competition.
Texas and its coalition of allied
states bring this action to
lift the veil on Google’s secret
practices and secure relief to
prevent it from engaging in
future deceptive and misleading
practices.”
This lawsuit alleges that
Google monopolized or attempted
to monopolize products
and services used by advertisers
and publishers in
online-display advertising.
The complaint also alleges
that Google engaged in false,
misleading and deceptive
acts while selling, buying and
auctioning online-display
ads. These anticompetitive
and deceptive practices demonstrably
diminished publishers’
ability to monetize
content, increased advertisers’
costs to advertise and directly
harmed consumers.
Texas has been joined
in the lawsuit by Arkansas,
Idaho, Indiana, Mississippi,
Missouri, North Dakota,
South Dakota, Utah, and the
Commonwealth of Kentucky.
As internal Google documents
reveal, Google sought
to kill competition and has
done so through an array of
exclusionary tactics, including
an unlawful agreement
with Facebook, its largest
potential competitive threat.
The Supreme Court has
warned that there are such
things as antitrust evils. The
lawsuit charges that Google
is guilty of antitrust crimes,
and seeks to make the unlawful
practices stop.
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