DoJ vs. Google. It's on. Somewhat
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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