As a Rule, Protectionism Masks Itself as Competition

Here's a letter to the Wall Street Journal:

Attempting to defend intrusion by antitrust bureaucrats into Google's business operations, Charles Rule writes that "Ironically, many of the most ardent defenders of Google are the same individuals – such as Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO who was an executive at Sun and later Novell – who devoted so much time, money and effort to pushing the frontiers of the law and government regulation against Microsoft a decade ago" ("'Trust Us' Isn't An Answer,"...