Actually, Eric Schmidt is testifying before the subcomitte during the FTC’s anti-trust probe kick-off hearing. $10 says they’ll get hit with an anti-trust suit of some kind next year.

Elsewhere, to get the juices flowing, Scott Cleland’s collected a long list of of “evils” (sans Wikileaks’ criminality) committed by Google.

Google 21st Century Robber Baron

In August, Google admitted to knowingly and repeatedly violating Federal criminal laws against the “unsafe and unlawful importation of prescription drugs” for years, in a criminal non-prosecution agreement; Google also paid a near record $500m forfeiture penalty. The Rhode Island U.S. Attorney who led the Google criminal probe said the evidence was clear current Google CEO “Larry Page knew what was going on.”

I don’t trust Google, we’re all sausages.

Elsewhere:

• Whether Google is a monopoly isn’t the point
• Senate notes: Schmidt’s Apple plug, Google piracy issues

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