KEY POINTS

  • The Department of Justice late Tuesday indicated that it was considering a possible breakup of Google as an antitrust remedy.
  • The DOJ said it was “considering behavioral and structural remedies that would prevent Google from using products such as Chrome, Play, and Android to advantage Google search.”
  • The judge has yet to decide on the remedies, and Google will likely appeal, drawing out the process potentially for years.
  • @Zombiepirate
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    802 months ago

    Neat!

    Do Amazon and Facebook too.

    • @A_Random_Idiot
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      492 months ago

      Lets call back to classics and do it to AT&T again, too.

      • @Zombiepirate
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        202 months ago

        There should just be a law that just periodically breaks up AT&T every few years.

        • @chuckleslord
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          82 months ago

          There should just be a law that just periodically breaks up AT&T all companies every few years.

          Given capitalisms inevitable march towards monopoly, this would just be good business.

        • @[email protected]
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          62 months ago

          Why not every large company, just for good measure?

          Make more than x, or pay your CEO more than y% more than the rest of the employees? Instant breakup!

          Society might actually be good!

      • @Addv4
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        32 months ago

        AT&T classic or new AT&T (Verizon, sprint/t-mobile)?

    • @ChocoboRocket
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      2 months ago

      And then everything too big to fail! Too big to fail = too big.

      It’s not like the knowledgeable people, or systems/infrastructure all disappear if a business fails. Business is basically a bunch instructions for people moving a bunch of shit around for money. Literally nothing about it is so unique it cannot be reproduced.

      And then also Physically split up Elon, billionaires need to learn how to exist in a society of laws and consequences instead of above it.

      • @Postmortal_Pop
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        92 months ago

        Physically split up Elon

        Draw and quarter the rich

    • Sabata
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      112 months ago

      Also break up ISPs. I have the local monopoly and 4 red herrings providers allowed to operate to give the illusion of competition.

      • @[email protected]
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        72 months ago

        And force fiber installation. I have plenty of fiber in my area… it just stops at the boundary of every apartment complex.

        • Sabata
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          22 months ago

          My area would get reasonable fiber coverage by the time we figure out how to stream cat videos over entangled particles to a phone.

        • bitwolf
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          Oh my gosh.
          My town advertised fiber rollout with a completion by the end of 2023.

          I asked about any projects for my street because it’s no longer 2023 and the clerks couldn’t find any road permits for running it through the conduit

          I live in a community of rental homes.

    • @Glytch
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      32 months ago

      How about we nationalize all three instead, start operating them for the public good?

      ^^^I ^^^know ^^^this ^^^dream ^^^is ^^^impossible