The Justice Department and Google battle over how to fix a search engine monopoly
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from Tea@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world on 21 Apr 23:44
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from Tea@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world on 21 Apr 23:44
https://programming.dev/post/29023402
Nearly a year ago, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google had acted illegally to maintain a monopoly on the search engine market.
It was a decision that sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley and Washington.
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Full fat article version
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Looks like they didn’t pay enough protection money.
Shoulda not been evil.
Reminder Google is complicit in genocide.
All companies will eventually try to become monopolies if they get large enough. It's the nature of capitalism, to do whatever it takes for the bottom line of profit and company growth. That's why regulations are a good thing, to put limits where a company along will never do.
It’s not something unique to capitalism. In communism you can easily have tons of monopolies as well.
Regulation is definitely a good thing. Competition among companies is a good thing.
In communism the state has control of everything and everything is a monopoly.
What’s the play here? Why is trump’s DOJ still pursuing anti trust after having all the CEOs at his inauguration? Is he trying to extort concessions out of the tech giants or something?
Maybe Google’s CEO did something to piss him off
Asserting dominance
I think you’ve got keep in mind that the cogs of the justice system turn slowly.
This is the district level damages decision which will finalize a ruling that was made nearly a year ago. After that, it can be appealed which can be heard by the circuit courts, and then finally the Supreme court, which is ostensibly where Trump has the most sway.
If there’s no play here, it’s because it still hasn’t got far enough through the system for him to want to interfere at this point.
Trump could get the case dropped right now though if he wanted to, right? Or is it too far along at the lower level for that to be an option?
I mean… maybe? Could an EO be used to just dismiss an existing case? Maybe. It’s kinda make believe land over there right now, so it’s hard to say what is and isn’t in the realm of possibility.
And I don’t know the legal system well enough to say for sure how he could go about it. Presumably some bureaucracy would have to be intervened in to stop the case from proceeding normally. Whether or not he could do that legally seems to be a bit contentious:
hls.harvard.edu/…/what-power-does-the-president-h…
However, there’s also the question of could he just have some cronies walk in to the place with a bunch of dudes in black suits and do it anyways? I think the DoJ would be pretty pissed if he tried that, but he’s already been flirting with contempt of court and we haven’t seen any judge pull the trigger on that yet, so we’ll see, I guess.
There’s also the fact that nobody’s given him incentive to do it yet. They’ll probably wait and see, as Trump would likely need a sizeable reason to step in, so why pay potentially more on Trump whithout knowing what the damages will even be, right?
I still won't use Chrome no matter who owns it.
I gladly use chrome.
For work only and absolutely nothing else.
It’s great for that, standardized and effectively quarantined from the rest of my OS, but I also know when I’m using the wrong browser and jump back to FF when it matters.
I love using chrome when botting. pages always trust you more
Use ungoogled-chromium
Kagi people
and they got thier hands in reddit too as the prmary results when you looking for questions, plus they allow reddit to use googles vcaptcha v3 system, for thier banning methods.
Is it just a hilarious coincidence that someone named Me(h)ta is going after Google?