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Kind of pathetic that it’s the first big one, given our economic structure and the fact that we’re nearly a quarter into the century.
What a pleasure to stumble across a random article and see it was written by Matt Stoller.
We need more Matt Stoller in Lemmy
I hate whataboutism’s, but, why hasn’t Apple and Disney been targeted yet?
or Amazon, or … oh there’s a list
https://www.openmarketsinstitute.org/learn/monopoly-by-the-numbers
Somehow I forgot about Amazon… lol
Excellent article! Very interesting read and I really hope this case leads to Google being split up. Google search is completely useless these days but I get why we see so few true alternatives, Google is just too big and eats up all possible revenue and running a search engine isn’t cheap.
If it’s so useless, why do you keep using it? And why would you expect it to get better if Google is broken up?
I switched to Duck Duck Go.
It’s the best thing that can happen to Google. It’s a 3000 megaton ship that has lost its way. It has hands in a dozen industries and is mediocre at all, only floating through its own sheer bloat.
A trimmed down Google would bring actual innovation.
Bye, bye YouTube.
Excellent article that really looks at the history of antitrust law and draws a pretty spot-on analysis of the current case, and how the presiding judge, Amit Mehta, compares to Harold Greene, who broke up AT&T:
I think the author is being a bit too hopeful here that Congress will enact stronger anti-trust legislation if the case fails, but he’s likely right about this eventually ending up in front of the Supreme Court.
Microsoft got off with an incredibly light slap on the wrist in 1998 considering what they’d done. I’ve worked as a software dev for 30 years and I’d say that Microsoft successfully held back progress and the web for a good 10 years.
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