Oh boy, can’t wait for this one to be thrown out by our totally not rugged, definitly for the people supreme Court.
US Court Rules Google a Monopoly in 'Biggest Antitrust Case of the 21st Century'.
Submitted 3 months ago by ModerateImprovement@sh.itjust.works to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.commondreams.org/news/google-monopoly
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Pika@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Fedizen@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Clarence Thomas needs a new RV, which one will google buy him?
Good_morning@lemmynsfw.com 3 months ago
Throw in a 4 wheeler and you’ve got a deal
BobGnarley@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Shit, Google would probably offer a private jet fuck an RV.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The supremes will rule fairly! …and in the case of people vs the Google, how do you find these 3 million dollars in a quad motor Tesla?
Innocent your supremacist! Innocent!
Patch@feddit.uk 3 months ago
What with Trump recently declaring (in his usual completely coherent and not at all deranged manner) that Google are Bad, the Supreme Court might not necessarily be feeling so keen to help out on this one.
bitwolf@lemmy.one 3 months ago
Trump is mad at Google so the Republicans want it. So Supreme Court will likely rule 6/3 in favor.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
one can hope lol
iamtrashman1312@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Cool, now actually enforce that judgment
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 3 months ago
America needs to pick up the old ways and start going after monopolies with a sledge hammer again.
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Hey now, let’s not be unreasonable!!
Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Okay, now loop in reddit’s bullshit exclusivity agreement to search results and make it so no one can favor any one search engine crawler or demand payment to be shown in search.
Most companies will want their site to show up on other search engines but they knew what they were doing, you only search for it on google to find results because google’s own are an SEO ad riddled mess.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 3 months ago
All your thoughts R belong to US!
stoly@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yep, this contract is now suspect.
Electric_Druid@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Finally, some good fucking news
fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Might not do much for the upcoming Manifest v3 doomsday but at least the current government recognises the ills of big tech as it currently stands.
Jarix@lemmy.world 3 months ago
But is this just tactics to win an election? Will they go the distance on any trust issue, or is it all vapour?
Jocker@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Nice… Now do it… Break them
TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 3 months ago
So what’s the better alternative? Search engines that say that are independent but then come crashing down when Bing goes down, which belongs to another convicted yet still existing monopoly?
jabjoe@feddit.uk 3 months ago
‘Biggest Antitrust Case of the 21st Century’ so far…
TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 3 months ago
We can only hope
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
tbh i care more about meta because of EEE
rozlav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Eee?
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
you need to get checked out, every fediverse user knows that means Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I thought Microsoft was the company that first embraced the whole “embrace, extend, extinguish” philosophy?
mlg@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah but they ended up investing in apple to avoid more serious antitrust litigation from becoming a complete monopoly, and Linux ruined their chances of dominating the server maketshare.
Google just took it and did it more discretly over a longer period of time.
bitwolf@lemmy.one 3 months ago
Please let an outcome from this enable users to change the default Android search from Google search 🙏
candybrie@lemmy.world 3 months ago
My point is people still used that VHSs. They just also bought DVDs. For most people, you didn’t only use one. I think most people went through a period where they used both.
candybrie@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You don’t pre-emptively punish people not causing harm. That’s a bad way to go.
Baguette@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Google no longer has the motto of “dont be evil”, I wonder why…
candybrie@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Because they’re engaging in harmful behaviors and need to be broken up and regulated.
candybrie@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You don’t need to bring your library. Having your library split between multiple platforms isn’t a big deal and most people do it. You just don’t give them any more money.
Jarix@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Uh yes many of us did not buy dvds because we had vhs and couldn’t afford to switch to a new medium.
Just like if we had a dvd collection we didn’t go to HDDVD / Blueray. Many people never got into Blu-ray at all
But eventually we had to and now we have issues with drm and losing purchased digital media on streaming services
candybrie@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m not talking about replacing your VHS collection but buying DVDs in addition. You would still watch both. Maybe buying a DVD player was a barrier. But it wasn’t that you owned VHS.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Fine: About $3.50
Punitive damages: lol
CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The fine isnt important, its if any breaking up of the company comes of it