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   Lauren Weinstein (lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 18:43:16 JST Lauren Weinstein

   Despite my strong differences with many of the decisions made by #Google over recent years, I can't emphasize enough what an utter disaster for the privacy and security of ordinary users most of the DOJ "remedies" being suggested to the judge in the Google antitrust case would be. I can't figure out if DOJ just isn't considering these issues in their rush to create "competition" in a manner that wouldn't actually help ordinary consumers at all -- and more likely just cause them more tech-related problems and confusion -- or if the folks at DOJ working on this simply don't really understand the technical realities involved.

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     WooShell (wooshell@chaosfurs.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 18:43:20 JST WooShell

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     @lauren Also, forced breakups of companies, especially in tech, don't really work. While the idea may be that customers get more choice who to buy services from, I am very afraid that it would go wrong in the same way as the Bell breakup did, where one geographic region is now served exclusively by Noogle, the other by Zoogle and the third one by Froogle. No gain in choice, just more bureaucracy and cost, and an overall loss in service quality.