Submitted 3 days ago by Tea@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2025/0416/1507950-google-faces-l5-billion-uk-lawsuit/
Alphabet’s Google is being sued in Britain for potential damages of up to £5 billion in a class action alleging the company abused its dominant market position in the online search industry.
Surely they will be found guilty with all due haste, and will not be able to drag this out for years.
I love how every country is broke, in turmoil, people are starving, no homes, and it’s like $8b fine. $20b fine! $5b fine! Like who is paying where is this going and who comes up with these figures that just end up being a number on a screen.
Are the “thousands of companies” hiding their identity?
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
So I guess we’re gonna have a far right government next election then when this is inevitably dragged out until the rich can buy the election by drumming up enough hate to make the average Brit spit in their tea if they thought it’d make immigrants/transes/youth sad.
I’m sorry to soapbox about politics in a tech thread, but this charade of “law and order” and endless debate about the actual merits of the actual lawsuit under the actual law are so tiresome when these corpos just bypass this shit anyway.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
If Labour are smart, they’ll opt to abolish FPTP before the next election. This 40% majority bullshit is enough.
Rogue@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Labour aren’t smart though. They believe FPTP gives them an advantage and thus we’re destined to misery under the conservatives as soon as the party gathers together the resources to bribe Farage into disbanding reform
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
That’ll just give more seats to reform.