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US: Louisiana AG asks Sessions to break up Google, Facebook, Twitter

By  |  September 20, 2018
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry would like to see Google, Facebook and other major social media behemoths broken up like the federal government did to Standard Oil more than a century ago, reported the Advocate.

Landry says the internet giants are suppressing conservative agendas, stifling competition, and infringing on antitrust laws. “This can’t be fixed legislatively,” Landry told The Advocate Tuesday. “We need to go to court with an antitrust suit.”

Landry, will go to Washington, D.C. next week to push that solution to US Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Sessions set a Sept. 25 meeting with about a half dozen Republican state attorney generals.

As president of the National Association of Attorneys General, Landry and other state attorney generals have been looking for months into what they call the anti-competitive practices of Google, Facebook and Twitter. Landry said they acted after hearing many complaints that the companies, accidentally or not, routinely freeze out conservative viewpoints.

Full Content: The Advocate

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