Alphabet's Google urges US government to avoid breaking up firm, source says

economictimes.indiatimes.com Alphabet's Google urges US government to avoid breaking up firm, source says

The US Department of Justice is currently pursuing two anti-monopoly cases against Google - one over search and another over advertising technology. The department has laid out potential remedies in the search case, including making Google divest parts of its business such as the Chrome Web browser ...

Anti-Trust @lemmy.ml

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Please allow us to monopolise! Please!
- "There's money in it for yoooooouuuuu..."

Watch the proton ceo ignore this while claiming the Trump administration “wants to regulate big tech”
- I don't understand.
  
  Nor do I. Wasn't the Proton CEO kissing the ring a few weeks ago?

You know what? They should be broken up even harder.

Bro... Under the current regime, no big tech will be touched
- Killing Google to serve as a warning that the rest of them had better follow orders might be useful…
  
  They all kissed the ring... They are all working with trump
  
  Eh I don't see that happening, the sheer amount of data Google has on the US population is probably quite useful to the admin, for, uh, reasons.

Microsoft got off the hook when Bush II took office. Tech in general took that as a sign that monopolies were fine. That was just starting to be reversed when Trump took a second term and here we are.

"The bigger we are the more misery we can inflict - Musk, Trump, plz help!"

Check out the anti trust community in my post history to follow this kind of subject more.

Can we get some actual tech related news please? This is just politics OF a tech company, not tech itself.
- What's the last significant tech development you remember? They're all just monopolistic lobbying firms.
  
  Mahle SCT/MCT Hybrid no-contact electric motor, the one that doesn't need brushes or rare earth metals.
  This community has done nothing but bitch about technology - there doesn't seem to be anyone here that actually enjoys technology, so much as they like bitching about technology.

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