• Admiral Patrick
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      214 months 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
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        144 months ago

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

        • Admiral Patrick
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          164 months 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
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            174 months 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!

  • Flying Squid
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    64 months ago

    I did not have to Google this. I have it bookmarked and downloaded a copy. No antitrust case will get rid of our bad news happening to bad people mascot.