U.S. says it’s weighing Google breakup as monopoly case remedy
U.S. says it’s weighing Google breakup as monopoly case remedy
The Department of Justice told a federal judge it is considering recommending that Google be forced to sell off parts of its operations in what would be a historic antitrust breakup.
So stoked. Both the breakup and the data remedy are essential to breaking this monopoly permanently. Death to Google
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Pls break android and chrome before election
And I'm weighing the edibility of my hat
Doubt it will happen but on the off-chance it does…Yes PLEASE.
“I FUCKING HATE SILICON VALLEY!”
“I WANT A LARGE AMOUNT OF COMPETING TECH COMPANIES RUN BY ENGINEERS THEMSELVES AND WANT TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE!”*
- = (Sure, under socialism technology will look vastly different but if we must live under capitalism, I’d like it to be where the execs have some experience with engineering and take pride in their product)
TECH COMPANIES RUN BY ENGINEERS THEMSELVES
At least half of the largest American tech companies are already run by (ex) engineers, that isn't the issue
Never gonna happen but that would be cool.
It's incredible how rapidly and how stark the drop in quality of Google searches have been.
2 years ago you stopped seeing anything relevant that wasn't a shopping link on the first page now with the spread of ai the top results are just dangerous misinformation.
My gf has celiac so we have to make sure everything we buy is totally gluten free. It's wild what kind of stuff you'd never think of has gluten in it. Like there's brands of cheese where the block is OK but you can't get the same cheese shredded because whatever anti-coagulant they use has gluten in it.
I googled "is brand name and product gluten free and the top ai generated answer on Google was "all allergens have to be clearly labeled so unless a product lists that it contains what it is gluten free" which is insanely dangerous misinformation.
And then sure enough half the pace d9wn is the a swer from the manufacturer saying the product is made in the same facility as wheat products so they can't guarantee aga8nst cross contamination.
It's not a never gonna happen situation- they've already been found guilty and the judge is working on the remedy. There is also an active fight over Harris keeping or firing Lina Khan as the FTC chair, and it's leaning towards her staying.
Remember when they broke up the Bell System and we totally got lower prices, better service, and the Baby Bells totally weren’t allowed to all merge back together again? You will.
So here's the thing. Breaking up Bell didn't do anything good because like the T1000 it just reformed again.
But not breaking up Bell, I think would have been worse. It really had run its course and had gone into full rent seeking mode.
At least for a couple years, while the shards of Bell were running around, that opened space for other technologies to get their chance to be tried
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watch nothing happen. in a real country the state would seize google and then break it up and nationalize it
It should be internationalised. Dunno how people would do that but someone needs to figure out a way. Android, YouTube and the actual Google search engine especially. These should be global public goods/services.
It would be funny if microsoft, apple and amazon join together to lobby in favor of breaking up google to have less competition
They wouldn't because they'd just be next on the block
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Please god I want the tumor that is Adsense chopped clean from that motherfucker
...we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.
From The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, 1998
I'm sure this will go just as well as when they considered breaking up Microsoft.
mmmhm, sure, I find this very possible and likely
I really hope the case continues but I don't see how it does.
If Kamala wins - the case will be dropped.
If Trump wins - who the fuck knows. When he's talking about Google - he could contradict himself in the same sentence. But I pretty sure Google openly and publicly bribes him by buying $25m in Trump coins or whatever. And AG Ted Nugent says "Google did the right thing by bending the knee to President Trump," and the case is dropped.
Don’t be evil
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