The Department of Justice told a federal judge it is considering recommending that Google be forced to sell off parts of its operations in what would be a historic antitrust breakup.

lets-fucking-go

So stoked. Both the breakup and the data remedy are essential to breaking this monopoly permanently. Death to Google

  • footfaults [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    23 days ago

    So here’s the thing. Breaking up Bell didn’t do anything good because like the T1000 it just reformed again.

    But not breaking up Bell, I think would have been worse. It really had run its course and had gone into full rent seeking mode.

    At least for a couple years, while the shards of Bell were running around, that opened space for other technologies to get their chance to be tried