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Re:Google, Facebook Agreed to Team Up Against Possible Antit... by konschubert on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @06:00AM (#25505035)
The first line of the article implies that this is an old agreement "in case".

Not an agreement that they came to just now.

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Re:Google, Facebook Agreed to Team Up Against Possible Antit... by chipgap98 on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @07:08AM (#25505483)
That doesn't change the fact that they are forming a bigger trust to combat anti-trust action. It's just premeditated.
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Re:Google, Facebook Agreed to Team Up Against Possible Antit... by konschubert on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @07:35AM (#25505647)
Yea, it makes it more evil. But also less stupid.
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Re:Google, Facebook Agreed to Team Up Against Possible Antit... by sidlls on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @07:55AM (#25505762)
How is it less stupid?
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Re:Google, Facebook Agreed to Team Up Against Possible Antit... by downrightmike on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @09:46AM (#25506690)
Collusion is on the anti trust bingo card.
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Re:Google, Facebook Agreed to Team Up Against Possible Antit... by onetimemanytime on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @07:38AM (#25505661)
2018 is now. Such lawsuits don't get filed overnight. States and DOJ have probably been asking for docs for quite a while so they knew it was coming
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