US says it may break up Google after landmark case

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62504lv00do

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RedditWanderer@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Do Microsoft next

Breadhax0r@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 1y (3 replies)

They did Microsoft in the 90s and nothing really changed

HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club · 14 pts · 1y

Not really. Microsoft got a slap on the wrist and was told to not create a new monopoly.

Putting Ballmer in charge was enough to do that.

RedditWanderer@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

Microsoft has acquired over 250 companies since that time. I don't think trying in the 90s means they are good forever.

skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 1y
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njm1314@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y

Billion dollars says they don't

p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 1y

Auli@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Do Apple then Facebook. These companies have bought or stolen from so many companies. They should all be broken up they are all to big.

skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 1y
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flop_leash_973@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

I'll believe it when I see it.

Everything in these kind of cases tends to be a negotiation. So if the starting point by the DOJ is "break them up", then I imagine they are willing to settle for something much less undesirable to Alphabet.

nonailsleft@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y

Best we can hope for is they're going to suck it so hard it tears off at the seam