We stayed quiet when reporters uncovered that former Google CEO Eric Schmidt started pushing the Biden administration to appoint Google's allies to top federal government positions.
With former Google lawyer Renata B. Hesse now the reported front-runner to head the Biden Justice Department's antitrust division, we can afford to be silent no more.
Biden is taking office at perhaps the most pivotal moment for reining in Google to date.
How then could Biden's staff possibly think it's a good idea to consider a former Google lawyer for this position - one whose husband's law firm still works for the company?
This is a corporation that, as recently argued by the U.S. solicitor general in the Google v. Oracle case at the Supreme Court, stole intellectual property from a competitor to create Android - its mobile operating system that's now home to 65 percent of the company's total paid clicks.
All the oxygen won't get sucked out of the nation's Google accountability push should the antitrust division fall into Hesse's hands.
In all likelihood, the company will still face justice following the Supreme Court's Google v. Oracle decision.
https://spectator.org/google-justice-department-renata-hesse/
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