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DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg reports (neuters.de)

submitted 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Chrome is now owned by a company, owned by a company, owned by another company, that is owned by Google.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

And even in the case where there is actual separation, and competition, it will only be temporary!

see history of telco consolidation after a monopoly breakup in 1984

[–] [email protected] 1 points 27 minutes ago

If they split Google, MS, Apple, Meta and Amazon all simultaneously, with some condition for the splinters to not merge back, and that contaminating the results of their allowed mergers, there may be good outcomes.

Or there may not. It's about people, not laws, after all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

Why doesn’t this have sprint?