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   atomicpoet (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 04:59:10 JST atomicpoet

   GOOGLE WAS JUST RULED A MONOPOLY!

   This wild day just got wilder! 😲

   Here’s what the judge wrote:

   After having carefully considered and weighed the witness testimony and evidence, the court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly. It has violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act.

   This ruling won’t just affect Google but also Apple, Amazon, Meta, and every other Big Tech company that the DOJ is going after!

   Let me be blunt. After decades of not doing anything about tech monopolies, the U.S. government just showed it is not playing games!

   https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-loses-antitrust-trial-in-major-blow-to-tech-giant-191745614.html

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     Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 04:59:09 JST Joe Ortiz

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     @atomicpoet Also Mozilla as well as this could mean that they're ever closer to death's door which would be an unfortunate side effect (although they did this to themselves in retrospect).

     It'll be appealed so it's not over yet.

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     Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 05:03:54 JST Joe Ortiz

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     @atomicpoet It remains to be seen for sure although Microsoft case is a good example of course.

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     atomicpoet (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 05:03:55 JST atomicpoet

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     • Joe Ortiz

     @joeo10 This will drag out in court for years, but the net effect is that this will hurt Google’s business, and will not allow them to engage in the same tactics that enabled them to maintain their search monopoly.

     Even if Google is never broken up, this will have long term effects on their business. Just ask Microsoft.

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     RememberUsAlways (rememberusalways@newsie.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 06:19:50 JST RememberUsAlways

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     @atomicpoet

     You can bet Alphabet will have the best attorneys an army can buy but this will be an epic court battle if a settlement is not reached.

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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 06:29:35 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     • Zephod Beeblebrox

     @BritishTechGuru @atomicpoet If YouTube gets caught up in this, I will definitely be worrying for the future of YouTube.

     I'm not sure another company besides one of these billion dollar conglomerates would be able to foot the bill. Actually, I'm pretty positive most other companies wouldn't be able to.😬

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     Zephod Beeblebrox (britishtechguru@techtoots.com)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 06:29:36 JST Zephod Beeblebrox

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     @atomicpoet This will be interesting. I am very much in favour of Meta, Google, Apple, Microsoft being reformed in some way. I still want to make money from YouTube though, somehow. I'm a bit too old and ugly to squeeze into women's skimpies to make money on OnlyFans (not to mention the wrong gender)