Google has agreed to pay $36 million fine for signing anticompetitive deals with Australia’s two largest telcos that banned the installation of competing search engines

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• biotin7@sopuli.xyz ⁨44⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Charge them billions

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• Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world ⁨33⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Google sucks ass

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• ieatpwns@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  That’s a slap on the wrist feather tickle on the wrist for alphabet what the actual fuck

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• phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How about you jail the Google and Telco execs that signed a deal that broke the law?

  If I break the law Ingo to jail, if an exec at a company does It, they get levied a small tax.

  What. The. Fuck.

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  • pulsewidth@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sorry, corporations are only legally ‘people’ when it suits them - like when paying bribes contributing to SuperPACs and lobbying. If it doesn’t suit them, like with crimes, then suddenly… nobody is responsible.

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  • pdxfed@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Strange how the powerful’s chosen candidates whose campaigns they fund have tended throughout history to not pass legislation the would have consequences for their funders. It almost makes me want to go out on a limb and say the system disproportionately benefits the wealthy at the expense of the poor who can’t just buy their way out of consequences.

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• 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Imagine breaking the law and making $244.50 as a direct result, then having to pay $0.036 as a fine. Would you even notice?

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  • pappabosley@lemmynsfw.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The likely have enough in petty cash

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• dinckelman@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nice, another slap on the wrist. Rounding error type of money will never change their behavior

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  • whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They probably earned more from it that they are paying here

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• radiouser@crazypeople.online ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  approximately 1.66 thousandths of a percent of Google’s worth. They’ll feel that one…

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• Aneb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Its the tax on human ip trafficking, it won’t stop Google from using us as cash pits to advertisers

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