Monopoly Round-Up: A Judge Can Break Up Google Right Now. Will He?
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Google lost an antitrust case late last year to Epic Games. Now California judge James Donato is overseeing the remedy. Could that include a break-up?
    • RedditWanderer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Betteridge’s law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.

  • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    If Google is broken up what changes? Are there going to two different companies creating a map app?

    • psychothumbs@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      11 months ago

      The breakup this is referring to is splitting off the Android operating system from the rest of Google.

    • AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Not sure what changes, but it’s scary how much Google controls. Even if we just broke off YouTube from them, that would be a big deal.

      Ideally we would split their search engine, YouTube, and chrome each into two competing companies. (Google A, Google B, Chrome A, Chrome B, YouTube A, YouTube B)

      Because Google has so much power they can make changes that will break search results, websites, and browsers if you don’t accept changes that are beneficial to them.

      • teleprint-me@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 months ago

        This honestly seems pointless. Would be better off just not allowing to google to own the property, even as a subsidiary. That would throw a wrench into too many aspects of society, so I don’t actually see that happening.