US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case

Re:US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case by ta1243 on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @04:23PM (#41792234)

Very few of that is free. openstreetmap - that's free. Google maps is an advertising and data mining platform.

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Re:US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case by someluccc on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @04:33PM (#41792327)

So you’re telling me the evil monopolist that charges nothing has a competitor, and that competitor is free? Which is why we must break up the evil monopolist?

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Re:US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case by Kon5ole on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @06:47PM (#41793618)

The case against Google surely is that they shouldn't be allowed to use their dominant position in ad sales to price dump unrelated businesses until all competitors are gone.

Like for example having youtube be free until they're the only game in town then start charging 14 dollars monthly to avoid 30% ads. Or targeting ads to gmail users so you can artificially provide a cheaper mail service than anyone else.

There's an actual law saying you can't do stuff like that.

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