• guyrocket
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      301 year ago

      And, you know, broke them up into many smaller companies.

      • @stellargmite
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        31 year ago

        I wonder to what extent this will help, in the case of YouTube? Its so dominant of that market. Is it purely fiscal or also technical?

        • @[email protected]
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          121 year ago

          It probably would help, as Google couldn’t connect their advertising services that easily with YouTube, and both parties would have to be more independent.

          • Inevitable Waffles [Ohio]
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            61 year ago

            Youtube is a money pit. If it had to split from Google, they will need to up monitization pronto or shut down. While I do want Google broken like Bane cracking Batman, there will be casualities. Too many parts of our internet infrastructure exist via subsidization and we use them like utilities. It is going to be messy out there if the FTC succeeds.

    • e0qdk
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      121 year ago

      There are two US antitrust cases against Google right now:

      The first is related to things like paying to be the default search engine on iPhone, Firefox, etc. The second is related to ad tech. Neither really directly addresses the issues that average people have with Google’s behavior though, so keep filing complaints!

    • @LEDZeppelin
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      -41 year ago

      Small government has entered the chat