Sources: DOJ and state AGs investigating Google for alleged antitrust violations are considering forcing it to sell Chrome and parts of its ad business
Prosecutors for the Justice Department and state attorney general offices are discussing ways of curbing the search giant's market power as they prepare to sue the company.
Politico Leah Nylen
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Discussion
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@carnage4life
Dare Obasanjo
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Since every non-MSFT browser is subsidized by Google Search, what does it even mean to sell it? Estimates are that Google pays Apple $7B a year to be the default in Safari & $500M to Firefox. Will the spin off be forced not to take Google's money? If not, what's the point?
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@carnage4life
Dare Obasanjo
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DoJ wants Google to sell Chrome for interesting reasons. Any privacy changes Chrome makes to reduce tracking hurts advertisers so they're always suspect even if Mozilla/Apple do the same thing. https://www.politico.com/...
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@politico
@politico
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Prosecutors for the Justice Department and state attorney general offices are discussing ways of curbing the search giant's market power as they prepare to sue the company. https://www.politico.com/...
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@vcdxnz001
WebScale Webster
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@WholeMarsBlog Nobody is forced to use Google Chrome. It's a free browser. I get the need for antitrust laws. But this is silly.
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@_juan_diego
@_juan_diego
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In my opinion, framing a privacy issue as a market dominance problem is a mistake. In a monopoly of data collection-and-exploitation what first needs to be fixed is not the monopoly part... https://twitter.com/...
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@cglodha
Chandan
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Ahh yes, if we apply the policies we applied to railroads 100 years ago to a free product that people love, that will solve all our problems! https://twitter.com/...
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@jonniola
Jon Niola
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This won't solve the problem. Google's dominance is not because of the browser. It's their search algorithms and analytical tracking platforms. https://twitter.com/...
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@cnyari
Cristian Nyari
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Not often these days that we get a largely bipartisan consensus on big issues. In the ideal scenario, this is positive conciliatory momentum to take into the post-election world. https://onezero.medium.com/...
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@dlberes
Damon Beres
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.@WillOremus' newsletter this week is a perfect, nuanced explainer on what we can expect in terms of antitrust action against Big Tech moving forward, following the release of two key reports this week. https://onezero.medium.com/...
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@matthewstoller
Matt Stoller
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One of the most obvious examples of how market power induces bad quality products is Siri. Siri is a terrible voice assistant, and has been so for years. But Apple ties Siri into its iOS and so that's that. Horrible quality product.
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@benedictevans
Benedict Evans
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A common spread I see in anti-trust discussion of tech (particular from outside tech) is the presumption that competition to Google look like Google, &competition to Facebook will look like Facebook - and people aren't investing in search that means there is a ‘kill zone’
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@willoremus
Will Oremus
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In all the coverage of the Democrats' sweeping vision for antitrust reform of Big Tech, it was easy to overlook that even the “dissenting” Republican proposal would represent dramatic progress in antitrust enforcement. My story: https://rsci.app.link/...