I'm afraid that even if this goes to trial it's only going to touch a small part of Alphabet (Google's parent company). Their services like Google, Youtube, Chrome or Adsense aren't a huge problem individually, it's everything taken together that makes them such a huge threat to democracy.
True! They do lose money on services like Youtube. Though I'm not sure if them no longer being able to run Youtube at a loss would do anything other than make them push the subscription service even harder. I suppose that might help push people toward alternatives like Bitchute though.
We'll see. It seems a little bit like posturing. As in: see we ARE willing to actually do something. On that level I err on the assumption that it's all politics.
Would be fun to just have someone say fuck it, no deals, no shenannigans, let's just let actual justice run it's course.
Prediction - it ends up in front of an openly leftist judge.
Addition - it'll have to weave its way all the way up to the Supreme Court in 3-5 years.
I'm afraid that even if this goes to trial it's only going to touch a small part of Alphabet (Google's parent company). Their services like Google, Youtube, Chrome or Adsense aren't a huge problem individually, it's everything taken together that makes them such a huge threat to democracy.
On the other hand: google doesn't have that many cash cows.
True! They do lose money on services like Youtube. Though I'm not sure if them no longer being able to run Youtube at a loss would do anything other than make them push the subscription service even harder. I suppose that might help push people toward alternatives like Bitchute though.
We'll see. It seems a little bit like posturing. As in: see we ARE willing to actually do something. On that level I err on the assumption that it's all politics.
Would be fun to just have someone say fuck it, no deals, no shenannigans, let's just let actual justice run it's course.
I guess, one can dream
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They'll file because they claim Google uses it's monopoly in search-traffic and online-advertising