In light of articles all over Lemmy about Google pushing ManifestV3 onto Chrome and the majority of web users, isn't that an antitrust violation? - Lemmy.world
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So as I understand it, Google’s using it’s monopoly market position to force web “standards” unilaterally (without an independent/conglomerate web specification standards where Google is only one of many voices) that will disadvantage its competitors and force people to leave its competitors. I’m not a lawyer, and I’m a fledgling tech guy, but this sounds like abuse of a monopoly. Google which serves 75% of the world’s ads and has 75% of the browser market share seems to want to use its market power to annihilate people’s privacy and control over their web experience. So we can file a complaint with FTC led by Lina Khan who has been the biggest warrior against abuse by big tech in the US. https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/report-antitrust-violation [https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/report-antitrust-violation] We can also file a complaint with the DOJ: https://www.justice.gov/atr/citizen-complaint-center [https://www.justice.gov/atr/citizen-complaint-center] And there have to be EU, UK, Indian, Chinese, and Japanese organizations that we can file antitrust complaints to.

Can the lawyers and web technology experts of Lemmy or our friends at the EFF or Louis Rossmann himself help organize the crafting of antitrust complaints to the FTC, DOJ, and the European Commission? If so, and we get these complaints crafted, then we can share them with the community so that we can all file them with these regulators. We can organize our course of action and coordinate the action itself here for example.

  • stravanasuEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    I suggest that “An example” is removed, maybe start with “Complaints”. Otherwise the post loses strength. Just my impression.

  • @SankaraStoneOPM
    3•1 year ago

    Hey folks i have a whole bunch of real life deadlines due this week, so i’m going to have to take a step back this week. If anybody else wants to take up the baton, feel free to get everything started. Otherwise, I’ll try to get everything going around Sunday or next Monday.