"A federal judge ruled that Google engaged in illegal practices to preserve its search engine monopoly, delivering a major antitrust victory to the Justice Department in its effort to rein in Silicon Valley technology giants," the Wall Street Journal reports.New York Times: "The ruling is the mo
  • Admiral PatrickEnglish
    21•1 month ago

    “The ruling did not include remedies for Google’s behavior. Judge Mehta will now decide that, potentially forcing the company to change the way it runs or to sell off part of its business.”

    I know the scope is for their search product, but I would love if Google was forced to fully divest from both Chrome and Android.

    • NegativeNullOP
      14•1 month ago

      That would be an absolute dream. We need a MA-Bell style breakup

      • Admiral PatrickEnglish
        16•1 month ago

        Oh, absolutely. In Google’s case, when you’re primarily an ad company, there’s just way too many conflicts of interests in also controlling the browser, mobile OS, and the most prominent search engine.

        • NegativeNullOP
          17•1 month ago

          This is also setting up:

          It is likely to influence other government antitrust lawsuits against Google, Apple, Amazon and Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.

          Lina Khan is a beast!