alt Hacker NewsGoogle avoids a breakup of its ad tech business
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More information on the specific remedies in the USDOJ announcement: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-wins-signi...
Sounds like it's not nothing, but also not much.
I wonder if it would help to revoke patents that help google maintain its monopoly, assuming that's the case and it's doable by a judge/congress/someone?
What exactly is the nature of its monopoly that moots competition? I was of understanding that it's more than just ads on google search results, isn't it?
twenty billion walkin out the court buildin woo woo!
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So, essentially, a nothing burger.
As usual.
what shocker . google has a long history of prevailing in court
What an incredible miscarriage of justice. Make enough money and pay off enough politicians, and you can pretty much shoot people on the street in broad daylight.
Destroying a great US institution is not in the national interest. Cases like these should never be permissible in the first place.
That "Lake America" is doing a hell of a lot of work for Google