Yeah, makes no sense - could it be that the poster isn’t native speaker and actually meant: “in the next three years”, implying that the criteria must be met within that timeframe…
Comment on Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff.
laxe@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why for only 3 years? Why not make these changes permanent?
lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 2 months ago
… why are you boldly speculating on OP’s language status? That’s pulled directly from the article
lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Because I was obviously unaware of the idiocy of the US justice system, and naively gave them the benefit of the doubt.
Under normal circumstances, it’d take Google about 3 years to stall the process of opening.
This will achieve nothing, and it would’ve been better for US consumers if my bold assumption had been correct.
FuryMaker@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Guess their thinking is that Google may not be a monopoly in 3 years, so the rules might not need to apply at that point, or they be reviewed?
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why can’t these rules apply to everyone always?
drake@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
They should apply to all platforms which have over a certain number of users, for sure. It’s not really a good idea imo to make it universally applicable because then you would end up with a situation where a hobbyist developer is legally required to deal with complying with all that legislation for their homebrew project with half a dozen users.