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Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by safog on Friday June 05, 2020 @08:57PM (#23435817)
I think it's time for tech to flex it's political muscle a bit. We're talking about humongous corporations with billions of dollars in cash silently giving to both Republican and Democratic super PACs since forever and the only political drama we had is Msft vs Amzn for the defence cloud contract. Media companies are puny by comparison.

The tech stance so far has been don't bother us and we'll continue to innovate, grow earnings and help users do cool things and investors make some money in the market. That has worked tremendously well for both the companies and their customers. I don't think changing that is in the users' interests at all.

I don't trust big media to provide accurate reporting here because they don't have the best of the relationships with G / FB.

Let's have privacy laws or platform regulation laws regarding censorship / free speech. Breaking big tech up is pointless.

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Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by IshKebab on Saturday June 06, 2020 @03:35AM (#23437473)
Google is heavily involved in politics. You seem to be under the impression that they stay out of it but that isn't the case.
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Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by safog on Saturday June 06, 2020 @05:54PM (#23442566)
Need some references then. Other than some ineffective immigration lobbying, I don't see them doing much.

What laws were passed to help G? What regulations changed to favor them?

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Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by throwawayy1001 on Friday June 05, 2020 @11:26PM (#23436566)
I think you’re missing the bigger picture here, google customers are marketers not gmail users.

The worst thing that google does imho is to subsidize YouTube, Gmail and other products using advertising money. They’re effectively selling your data to marketers while killing competitors.

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