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Justice Department considering push for historic break up of Google after landmark antitrust ruling: report (nypost.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Big tech needs far stricter regulations but I don't think people would like the internet very much if Google was forced to sell off services like YouTube. Nobody else is offering unlimited free hosting, discoverability, promotion, and bandwidth for video content and nobody ever will again. If the chromium project was sold off to some other shitty tech company, do you really think they'd keep the open source 'ungoogled' version readily available for everyone? A Google breakup would just mean that other tech companies like Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, etc get more powerful.

If there's an appetite for breakups why not start with the companies that control our food and news

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

It's not 2010, video streaming isn't unprofitable anymore and Youtube doesn't have a monopoly on it. Chromium is open source, and as far as I'm concerned, Google has been actively making it worse with their efforts to fill it with ads.