DOJ Sues Google But Boo Boo Barr Has His Own Tales He Has Yet To Tell

Oh, the antitrust lawsuit against Google is far more protracted that what Boo Boo Barr is presenting.

Statement of the Attorney General on the Announcement Of Civil Antitrust Lawsuit Filed Against Google

Attorney General William P. Barr released the following statement:

“This morning the Department of Justice, along with eleven states, filed a civil lawsuit against Google for unlawfully maintaining a monopoly in general search services and search advertising in violation of the U.S. antitrust laws.  This is a monumental case for the Department of Justice and, more importantly, for the American consumer.

Today, millions of Americans rely on the Internet and online platforms for their daily lives.  For years, there have been broad, bipartisan concerns about business practices leading to massive concentrations of economic power in our digital economy.  Hearing those concerns, I have made it a primary commitment of my tenure as Attorney General for the Department of Justice to examine whether technology markets have been deprived of free, fair, and open competition.

To that end, the Department of Justice formally opened a review of online market-leading platforms in July 2019.  One part of this review is the Antitrust Division’s investigation of Google.  Over the course of the last 16 months, the Antitrust Division collected convincing evidence that Google no longer competes only on the merits but instead uses its monopoly power – and billions in monopoly profits – to lock up key pathways to search on mobile phones, browsers, and next generation devices, depriving rivals of distribution and scale.  The end result is that no one can feasibly challenge Google’s dominance in search and search advertising.

This lack of competition harms users, advertisers, and small businesses in the form of fewer choices, reduced quality (including on metrics like privacy), higher advertising prices, and less innovation.

The complaint filed today against Google is based on violations of the U.S. antitrust laws and is separate and distinct from concerns raised about content moderation and political censorship by online platforms.  As part of the Department’s broader review of market-leading online platforms, we listened to myriad public concerns about how online platforms fail their users.  While many of the concerns we heard were competition-related, others were not – like online child exploitation, public safety, and censorship.  Outside the Antitrust Division, the Department has considered these issues separately, including by advocating for Section 230 legislative reforms.  Our antitrust investigation of Google, by contrast, is based solely on traditional antitrust principles and is aimed at promoting consumer welfare through robust competition.  

Twenty-five years ago, the Department of Justice sued Microsoft, paving the way for a new wave of innovative tech companies – including Google.  The increased competition following the Microsoft case enabled Google to grow from a small start-up to an Internet behemoth.  Unfortunately, once Google itself gained dominance, it resorted to the same anticompetitive playbook.  If we let Google continue its anticompetitive ways, we will lose the next wave of innovators and Americans may never get to benefit from the “next Google.”  The time has come to restore competition to this vital industry.

Today’s challenge against Google – the monopoly gatekeeper of the Internet – shows the tremendous efforts of the Department, in particular the hardworking men and women of the Antitrust Division, and our state partners to restore competition in markets beholden to an unlawful monopolist.  This is an important milestone, but not the end of our review of market-leading online platforms.  The Department will continue to vigorously investigate and enforce the antitrust laws where appropriate to protect and promote competition in the digital economy for the benefit of the American consumer.”

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Prelude To Detroit: Google Gets A New Antitrust Attorney - Halimah DeLaine Prado, Juvenile Law Center & Michigan Sex Offender Registration Act

Halimah DeLaine Prado

Getting a new attorney does not absolve one from lying into the public record.

Halimah is from the Juvenile Law Center.

This is getting interesting, but, we shall see what she does, as we are dealing with the industry of trafficking tiny humans.

Halimah DeLaine Prado is a Vice President of Legal at Google LLC. Prior to joining Google, Halimah practiced media law and products liability law at Dechert LLP and Levine Sullivan Koch and Schulz (now Ballard Spahr). She also clerked for the Honorable Mary A. McLaughlin of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Halimah graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Political Science and later obtained her J.D. from Georgetown. Halimah is passionate about education and juvenile rights, having served on various boards that address these issues, including the board of the Juvenile Law Center. When not working, she enjoys traveling with her husband and two daughters.

Just as a point of interest, I thought it prudent to note that my blog is run on google, for I am quite sure Halimah already knows this, as google would never bleachbit the public record....they may just face an situation in the termination of their corporate parental rights to keep and bear the arms of the United States....

Google names Halimah DeLaine Prado new general counsel as antitrust cases loom

Google has promoted Halimah DeLaine Prado, vice president of legal, as its new general counsel.

Prado will take on legal duties previously held by Kent Walker, a senior vice president, the company said.

The new appointment comes at a time the company faces intense antitrust scrutiny.

Halimah DeLaine Prado is the new General Counsel at Google.

Google has a new head general counsel, company legal exec Halimah DeLaine Prado.

The company announced Tuesday that Prado will be taking over legal duties from Kent Walker, a senior vice president, effective immediately. The company promoted Walker to senior vice president of global affairs in 2018, where he took on extra responsibilities, including overseeing Google's policy, legal, trust and safety, and corporate philanthropy teams.


The latest appointment comes as the company faces potential antitrust cases against it this year. Google is reportedly expecting a lawsuit from the U.S. Department of Justice, focused on its dominance in online advertising and search. Last month, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai joined CEOs of Amazon, Apple and Facebook at the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust for a four-hour questioning session about the company's competitive practices. That was followed by the release of trove of internal emails.

Prado will oversee legal responsibilities and teams, reporting directly to Walker, the company said.

In a statement, Walker said: "Halimah has been a trusted counselor and exceptional leader, having navigated a variety of cross-product and company-wide issues over the course of her nearly 14-year career at Google. She is uniquely qualified to lead the Legal Department at this critical moment, and I look forward to working with her as we enter this next chapter."

Before the new appointment, Prado oversaw Google's global team that worked on legal counseling for Google products including advertisements, Search and YouTube, the company said. She's been at Google since 2006.

The company said she is not taking on a replacement role for Alphabet's longtime chief legal officer, David Drummond, who in January retired after he was the subject of shareholder lawsuit alleging misconduct.

Juvenile Law Center - Labeled for Life August 2020 by Beverly Tran on Scribd

Children on the registry – including some as young as 8 years old – face residency and employment restrictions as well as barriers to education; suffer the stigmatization of being labeled a sex offender; and can face possible incarceration for failing to meet onerous registration and reporting requirements.4 A 2013 Human Rights Watch report examined the grave consequences befalling registered youth.5 Over 85% of these youth reported serious mental health issues or suicidal ideation. A 2017 study revealed that registered children are nearly twice as likely to have experienced an unwanted sexual assault that involved contact or penetration in the past year when compared to nonregistered children who have also engaged in harmful or illegal sexual behaviors.6 They are also five times more likely to report having been approached by an adult for sex in the past year.7 Children on sex offender registries are four times more likely to report a recent suicide attempt than non-registered children who have engaged in harmful or illegal sexual behavior.8 Many registered youth also experience vigilantism in their communities, with 52% reporting harassment and physical violence directed at them. Accessing and maintaining housing is also a major barrier for both registered youth and their families. Over 44% of children experienced homelessness as a result of the restrictions placed on their housing due to registration.9 Almost all registered individuals face financial challenges and barriers to employment. In some states, registration fees are so prohibitive that many fall out of compliance and face incarceration. 

 The Juvenile Law Center has only enhanced the industry of trafficking tiny humans, through juvenile justice, in the sense that they only address the latest and greatest hot button issues, and have, not once engaged me.

I reached out to them many moons ago.

They never got back, but I do recall a spirited dialectic.

They were "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending).

I told my Sweetie about them.

They never even had the courtesy of reaching out to him, which means they are Meanies, but I do not know Halimah, so I shall reserve my angst for that moment she starts her magical cloaking of what they do in the realms of antitrust.

Now, as for Google, well, they just cannot stop bearing false witness into the public record.

I was sitting right there, in shock, when they first spoke in the public record about their search algorithms, because, what they were doing, flew right over the Members' heads, which is why I do what I do.

As of this very moment, the search function is just a hot mess, but, it may be due to the fact that I am on legacy mode, because the new mode is severely lacking on the ability to see individual datum, but data visualization in pretty pictures in the new blogger, but I digress.

This case is currently being weaponized by one of our most favorite  "Legal Genius" (trademark pending), Cernovich, because he is the progenitor of #pizzacrap and the promulgator of #MeToo.

In a nutshell, a group of young men were individually convicted under the Michigan Child Welfare System of governance in the courts for, not to make light of the situation, "dating" girls who were over the four year range of the age of consent, meaning, according the suit, were anywhere from 14 years to 17 years of age, where, the perpetrators were in median of 18 years.

Some of the John Does came out of Foster Care.

Some of the John Does were in the hands of Those Who Like To Do Nasty Things To Tiny Humans.

Many of the Plaintiffs were sentenced under Michigan HYTA Law, for juveniles between the ages of 17 and 24.

For the simple fact these individuals came out child welfare, I take pause as to what Cernovich is rallying in nefarious cyberverse.

Michigan also has a Central Registry of Child Abuse and Neglect, but we have already covered these databases.

There was another issue that triggered me, and that was the fact that I saw gerrymandering.

These juveniles must register on the Michigan Sex Offender Registry, which is a label for life.

This SORA label is in google.

These juveniles use google maps to see where are the restricted zones on where they may reside.

That means google controls data for gerrymandering, and we all know what gerrymandering is.

Michigan Sex Offenders Regi... by Beverly Tran

So, since we have Halimah at the helm, and I am quite sure she has just finished reading this post, let us sit back to see what she is going to do, particularly, when dealing with Cernovich and his pizzacrappers, because they were all mean to my Sweetie, including the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which are the overlords for these foreign, privatized, Foster Care to Juvenile Justice Pipelines.

#maytheheavensfall

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DOJ: Open Public Comments On SORNA - Adam Walsh Child Protection Database - October 13, 2020

Are you bored, in search of a way to have your voice heard, knowing that your Twitter is search suppressed?

Why, here is your opportunity!

DOJ is announcing open comments on its rulemaking.

DOJ did not like public input when it came to rulemaking, but Sessions changed that practice.

You have to get creative to get the DOJ to listen, particularly when it comes to tiny humans, but I digress, not really.

DRU SJODIN
NATIONAL SEX OFFENDER PUBLIC WEBSITE

https://www.nsopw.gov/

So, instead of hammering on your mobile device, how about submitting your comments, under penalty of law, by signing your name, verifying who you are and what you are presenting, for the betterment of society, and not just personal graft.

I believe all social media platforms should have the same disclaimer, but they do not, because they are private, foreign corporations, where there is no such thing as civil rights, unless there is raised an an issue of armigerous validity, a Parental Right, but, I digress, well, not really.

It all comes down to trafficking tiny humans.

Here is the history of SORNA.

Here is the history of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006.

Here is the history of the Central Registry of Child Abuse & Neglect, where poverty is considered a crime.

I say, if we can maintain public databases on individuals who engage in such heinous acts, then, in the same breath, we can maintain public databases on individuals who engage in rulemaking, and Medicaid fraud in child welfare.

I will also go so far as to say that we can just merge all the databases, then invert them so each and every individual will have their own cyberchit, cybertrust, block, self contained, identity.

The same should be done for commerce, where the U.S. Census resided in the Department of Commerce.

That way, all you have to do is pick up your mobile device and build your own wall, where everyone can witness the content of your character.

So, the moral of the story is, "If you do not want people to know what you do, then, perhaps, you should not be doing it."

Summary
The Department of Justice is proposing a rule that specifies the registration requirements under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (“SORNA”). The rule in part reflects express requirements of SORNA and in part reflects the exercise of authorities SORNA grants to the Attorney General to interpret and implement SORNA's requirements. SORNA's requirements have previously been delineated in guidelines issued by the Attorney General for implementation of SORNA's requirements by registration jurisdictions.

Dates
Written and electronic comments must be sent or submitted on or before October 13, 2020. Comments received by mail will be considered timely if they are postmarked on or before the last day of the comment period. The electronic Federal Docket Management System will accept electronic comments until midnight Eastern Time at the end of that day.

Addresses
Comments may be mailed to Regulations Docket Clerk, Office of Legal Policy, U.S. Department of Justice, 950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Room 4234, Washington, DC 20530. To ensure proper handling, please reference Docket No. OAG 157 on your correspondence. You may submit comments electronically or view an electronic version of this proposed rule at http://www.regulations.gov.

For Further Information Contact
David J. Karp, Senior Counsel, Office of Legal Policy, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, 202-514-3273.

Supplementary Information
Posting of Public Comments. Please note that all comments received are considered part of the public record and made available for public inspection online at http://www.regulations.gov. Such information includes personal identifying information (such as your name, address, etc.) voluntarily submitted by the commenter.

You are not required to submit personal identifying information in order to comment on this rule. Nevertheless, if you still want to submit personal identifying information (such as your name, address, etc.) as part of your comment, but do not want it to be posted online, you must include the phrase “PERSONAL IDENTIFYING INFORMATION” in the first paragraph of your comment. You also must locate all the personal identifying information you do not want posted online in the first paragraph of your comment and identify what information you want redacted.

If you want to submit confidential business information as part of your comment, but do not want it to be posted online, you must include the phrase “CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS INFORMATION” in the first paragraph of your comment. You also must prominently identify confidential business information to be redacted within the comment. If a comment has so much confidential business information that it cannot be effectively redacted, all or part of that comment may not be posted on http://www.regulations.gov.

Personal identifying information and confidential business information identified and located as set forth above will be placed in the agency's public docket file, but not posted online. If you wish to inspect the agency's public docket file in person by appointment, please see the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT paragraph.

Department of Justice Publishes Proposed Regulations Articulating the Registration Requirements for Sex Offenders under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act

The Department of Justice has published proposed regulations that provide a clear and comprehensive statement of sex offenders’ registration requirements under the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).  SORNA requires convicted sex offenders to register in the states in which they live, work, or attend school, and it directs the Attorney General to issue regulations and guidelines to implement SORNA. 

“SORNA is a crucial public safety measure,” said Assistant Attorney General for Legal Policy Beth A. Williams.  “The proposed regulations will further Congress’s and the Department’s shared goal of ensuring that convicted sex offenders are accounted for under the law.  These regulations will enhance the enforcement of registration and notification across the country and ensure that information about sex offenders in the community is available to law enforcement and the public.”  

Congress enacted SORNA as part of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 to strengthen the nation’s sex offender registration programs, which exist in every state, and to ensure that sex offenders are effectively tracked as they move among jurisdictions.  SORNA includes requirements regarding the sex offenses for which registration is required and the information sex offenders must provide to registration authorities; reporting of changes in, and periodic verification of, residence and other information; and the required duration of registration for sex offenders in different classes.  SORNA also requires sex offenders to report travel abroad, which addresses the global concern over international sex tourism and trafficking.

The proposed regulations’ clear and comprehensive statement of registration obligations under SORNA will promote the effective enforcement of SORNA’s requirements.  By these means, the proposed regulations will further SORNA’s objective of protecting the public from sex offenders by establishing a comprehensive national system for the registration of such offenders.

The proposed regulations are available here.

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CONYERS Statement for the Hearing, “Combating Crimes against Children: Assessing the Legal Landscape,” by the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations

Dean of the U.S. House
of Representatives
John Conyers, Jr.

Today’s hearing by this subcommittee will discuss the serious and disturbing issue of the criminal victimization of children.  With all of our efforts to fight the various forms of child exploitation, it continues to be a threat to our young people. 

However, we have developed strategies to both prevent and respond to these crimes, and to assist the many children who are victims.  I trust we will learn about the strategies that are working and how we can do better. 

In April of last year, the Department of Justice reported to us that the main threats in this area in the next five years will be:  child pornography, sextortion, child sex trafficking, sex offender registry violations, and child sex tourism.

The response to these crimes involves an intricate network of federal, state, and local law enforcement and prosecutorial agencies, and private, nonprofit organizations and advocates, supported by direct federal funding authorizations and grant programs, all working together to keep our youngest constituents safe from harm.

Today we will hear from individuals, representing some of the entities involved in this very necessary mission.  Their roles illustrate the ways we can do more and do better. 

First, we in Congress must recognize that, while we can enact federal legislation, state and local law enforcement are on the front lines and we must support their partnerships with federal agencies.  The Internet Crimes against Children Task Force program, funded through the Justice Department’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, provides training and technical assistance and regularly conducts undercover online investigative operations.

Since Congress mandated creation of this program, 3,500 federal, state, and local law enforcement and prosecutorial agencies have joined to form 61 coordinated regional task forces.  These task forces are especially important now, because we are seeing a tremendous increase in crimes perpetrated against children on the Internet.

Detective Patrick Beaver, from the Loudon County Virginia Sheriff’s Office, will speak with us today about the successes his office has had working with the Northern Virginia Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force to conduct an operation targeting internet predators last year.

Next, we must provide specialized assistance to families, victims, and law enforcement to help prevent child abductions, recover missing children, identify and assist victims of child pornography and child sex trafficking.  That is the mission of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and we will hear from their representative today about what they are experiencing in providing this assistance. 

As a former local and federal prosecutor, Ms. Francey Hakes will also help tell us about the challenges at the state and federal levels in fighting these crimes and enforcing our laws. 

All of this will help us as we consider legislation to amend and reauthorize important statutes such as the Adam Walsh Act and the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.  

Clearly, we must do more to prevent and investigate these crimes – and especially assist their many victims.  When we do apprehend and convict offenders, we must recognize that most of them will be released back into society at some point.  

The Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act is intended to establish a nationwide system of monitoring and tracking sex offenders, particularly after they are released from prison.  Currently, there are over 850,000 registered sex offenders in this country.

If we are going to have such a system, we must ensure that it is used in appropriate circumstances and in the most effective manner.  However, only 17 states are in substantial compliance with its requirements.

States, policy makers, researchers, and advocates continue to object to the requirements established by SORNA for many reasons.

One of the most pervasive criticisms of SORNA is the inclusion of juveniles on registries. Ms. Nicole Pittman is here with us today to discuss the real impact of juvenile registration – on the juveniles, their families, and the overall effectiveness of SORNA.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing on this important topic.  We all wish that child exploitation could be eradicated, but the problem persists.  With what we learn today, I hope we can work together to come closer to achieving our goal.

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