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Re:DOJ's proposals risk hurting consumers, businesses, and d... by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @11:46PM (#41784334)
There is value in contrasting the DoJ with the FTC, which has made a lot of noise but yielded—thus far—nothing substantial.

The DoJ is more powerful—it can bring criminal charges. But it’s also subject to a higher standard. (It couldn’t forget to define market share in a complaint, for instance.) Watch, carefully, for the folks who want a neophyte at the FTC but writhe at the DoJ’s teeth.

Re:DOJ's proposals risk hurting consumers, businesses, and d... by anigbrowl on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @11:28PM (#41784231)
Nothing could have convinced me more than the DOJ is on the right track.
Re:DOJ's proposals risk hurting consumers, businesses, and d... by userbinator on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @12:51AM (#41784614)
Exactly as expected, here comes the FUD.
Re:DOJ's proposals risk hurting consumers, businesses, and d... by brendoelfrendo on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @12:56AM (#41784631)
Why is Google's statement here? I don't really care about Google's opinion of a newly opened legal proceeding, of course their stance is that the DOJ is doing something bad.
Re:DOJ's proposals risk hurting consumers, businesses, and d... by tuveson on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @01:04AM (#41784658)
> Hampering Google’s AI tools risks holding back American innovation at a critical moment

I would pay money to never see google search AI suggestions. If that’s what they consider innovation, then we definitely need more competing search engines.

Re:DOJ's proposals risk hurting consumers, businesses, and d... by bbarnett on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @03:11AM (#41785299)
They completely broke verbatim too, been that way for a few months. Sheer incompetence.

But they at least have a "web" option, which just shows websites.

Re:DOJ's proposals risk hurting consumers, businesses, and d... by curtis3389 on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @01:13AM (#41784700)
Their first point seems valid. Remember the AOL search logs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_log_release

The rest of Google's points are worthless hogwash.