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[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 14 points 4 months ago

I don't hold my breath until they really do it.

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

NY Post

Going to need a much better source than this.

[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz 10 points 4 months ago
[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Thanks.

Justice Department officials are considering what remedies to ask a federal judge to order against the search giant, said three people with knowledge of the deliberations involving the agency and state attorneys general who helped to bring the case. They are discussing various proposals, including breaking off parts of Google, such as its Chrome browser or Android smartphone operating system, two of the people said.

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Last week’s ruling that Google was a monopolist was a landmark antitrust decision, raising serious questions about the power of tech giants in the modern internet era. Apple, Amazon and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, also face antitrust cases. Google is scheduled to go to trial in another antitrust case — this one over ad technology — next month. Any remedies in Google’s search case are likely to reverberate and influence that broader landscape.

TIL, the ruling might actually carry some consequences. I guess we'll see where this takes us.

[-] time_fo_that@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Okay now do Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia, Blackrock, etc etc

[-] jabjoe@feddit.uk 9 points 4 months ago

May I recommended watching "The YouTube Effect" if you don't see the problem with big tech companies.

[-] GladiusB@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

I'm guessing it can be found on YouTube?

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[-] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Cool. Take their search stuff, open source all the software, spin out an account service and 6 baby search engine companies.

Do the same with each of their massive properties.

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[-] _sideffect@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Good luck, I'm all for it, but good luck

[-] Beaver@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 months ago

That’s what I like to hear!

[-] Yokozuna@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Great, now do the rest of them.

[-] jackhp95@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Alphabet soup

[-] ngwoo@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Big tech needs far stricter regulations but I don't think people would like the internet very much if Google was forced to sell off services like YouTube. Nobody else is offering unlimited free hosting, discoverability, promotion, and bandwidth for video content and nobody ever will again. If the chromium project was sold off to some other shitty tech company, do you really think they'd keep the open source 'ungoogled' version readily available for everyone? A Google breakup would just mean that other tech companies like Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, etc get more powerful.

If there's an appetite for breakups why not start with the companies that control our food and news

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