Article snippet: Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), who chairs the Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee, asked Barr his thoughts on anti-trust. Lee asked: Barr responded, saying that he remains interested in “reassessing” or learning more about the DOJ’s anti-trust policies regarding the Silicon Valley giants, especially considering how they became so dominant under the current anti-trust enforcers, which includes the DOJ and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Barr explained: “And you can win that market share without violating anti-trust laws, but I want to find out more about that dynamic,” Barr added. Barr’s comments arise as many conservatives and populists have called for greater scrutiny into America’s dominant technology companies. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), then-Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), as well as Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) have railed against the social media giants’ anti-conservative bias. Facebook and Google have inflamed controversy in the past for their anticompetitive practices. When review website Yelp would not sell to Google in 2009, Google decided to scrape Yelp’s search results and displayed them directly on Google. Yelp complained to both the FTC and Google; however, Google said the only recourse was to remove Yelp from the search engine. Luther Lowe, a vice president at Yelp, stated, “We still exist, but Google did everything it could to ensure that we’d never present a threat to them. It’s bullying, but they’re the 800-pound gorilla.” In April... Link to the full article to read more