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Re:A new round of antitrust questions can’t go well for Google by luckylion on Saturday June 01, 2019 @11:51PM (#20073346)
> Plus, you can always choose to just not use Google.

A customer can, a company cannot. Similarly to how a customer can choose another ISP, but Google cannot choose to just not to business with ISPs: if a business cannot be connected to their customers, that business cannot live.

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Re:A new round of antitrust questions can’t go well for Google by pfortuny on Sunday June 02, 2019 @04:18AM (#20074210)
But you cannot opt out of being used by google when one of your friends has a gmail account.
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Re:A new round of antitrust questions can’t go well for Google by umanwizard on Sunday June 02, 2019 @12:08AM (#20073422)
I do not think Google peers directly with every ISP in the world. Traffic can take multiple hops.
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Re:A new round of antitrust questions can’t go well for Google by dmourati on Sunday June 02, 2019 @01:04AM (#20073569)
No but they do have an open peering policy meaning they'll generally peer with anyone who wants to free of charge.

https://peering.google.com/#/options/peering

https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/15169

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Re:A new round of antitrust questions can’t go well for Google by luckylion on Sunday June 02, 2019 @03:44AM (#20074113)
True, but they need to peer with ISPs directly or indirectly, they can't just not peer with anybody if they still want to be reachable.
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