Google Urges DOJ To Reverse Course on Breaking Up Company (yahoo.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/03/05/1355244/google-urges-doj-to-reverse-course-on-breaking-up-company
- Source link: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-urges-trump-doj-reverse-221744202.html
> Representatives for the Alphabet unit asked the government in a meeting last week to take a less aggressive stance as the US looks to end what a judge ruled to be an illegal online search monopoly, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing the private deliberations. The Biden administration in November had called for Google to [2]sell its Chrome web browser and make other changes to its business including an end to billions of dollars in exclusivity payments to companies including Apple.
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> Although Google has previously pushed back on the Biden-era plan, the recent discussions may preview aspects of the company's approach to the case as it continues under the Trump administration. A federal judge is set to rule on how Google must change its practices following hearings scheduled for next month. Both sides are due to file their final proposals to the judge on Friday.
[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-urges-trump-doj-reverse-221744202.html
[2] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/11/18/2352224/doj-wants-google-to-sell-chrome-to-break-search-monopoly
National Security Concerns? (Score:3)
Have we reached the point where corporate interests are now national security concerns? I suppose that's the end-goal of capitalist societies, isn't it? Making sure the corporations are so massive that it would be seen as a blow to national security to not allow them to do whatever they want to the world.
Is there anything left in the United States for the ordinary citizen? Or are we just doomed to turn into a society hell-bent on working us to death for the greater glory of the corporations?
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No, it is an end goal of fascists. la Presidenta is a fascist dictator. Those pets, i.e., cabinet heads, are fascists themselves and see no problem is integrating their companies and industry with the fed. gov. Elmo is one of them, and he owns la Presidenta as well.
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How much you want to bet Google bought a boatload of Trump coin at one point? They have the receipts and sent them to mango mussolini. Make this go away, supreme leader.
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> Have we reached the point where corporate interests are now national security concerns?
Definitely. Elon and his human shield are flying Air Force One on the taxpayer dime. [1]https://www.hindustantimes.com... [hindustantimes.com] The worlds richest man lives in the Whitehouse and won't leave Trump's side. Elon has been classified as a "special government employee" so that means he can only work 130 days per year so let's see what happens at the 130 day mark, shall we? [2]https://www.doi.gov/ethics/spe... [doi.gov]
[1] https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/elon-musk-and-his-family-under-fire-for-using-air-force-one-thats-government-waste-101741098400670.html
[2] https://www.doi.gov/ethics/special-government-employees
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>> Have we reached the point where corporate interests are now national security concerns?
> Definitely. Elon and his human shield are flying Air Force One on the taxpayer dime. [1]https://www.hindustantimes.com... [hindustantimes.com] The worlds richest man lives in the Whitehouse and won't leave Trump's side. Elon has been classified as a "special government employee" so that means he can only work 130 days per year so let's see what happens at the 130 day mark, shall we? [2]https://www.doi.gov/ethics/spe... [doi.gov]
Elon owns Donald. He doesn't leave his side because he knows Don's unpredictable as all hell and :Elon now considers himself to be the de-facto president. I can guarantee you that no one will call them out when it's day 131 and Elon doesn't leave. The Republicans in congress are, for some reason, utterly convinced that the only way to keep their jobs is to just let the pair do whatever they feel like doing. The Democrats, long looking like the public relations arm of the corporatists, have given up the pret
[1] https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/elon-musk-and-his-family-under-fire-for-using-air-force-one-thats-government-waste-101741098400670.html
[2] https://www.doi.gov/ethics/special-government-employees
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Sounds like they are just setting up a reason for not telling us shit after they made an 'artistic' deal with Trump.
trump administration is overtly corrupt (Score:3)
If you don't understand what corruption is, this is a textbook example.
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Could you please share some of what you are smoking?
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You and that fucking laptop. How many years into this investigation and it has resulted in what charges? Not paying taxes and lying on a federal firearms form. Sounds like Hunter is a republican.
Re: Oh nonononono nooo (Score:2)
Yeah, they didnt do any of that. Suppression of misinformation isn't the same as political bias. But, more importantly, Sundar showed up to the inauguration with millions of dollars in tow. Suddenly that makes more sense.
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what youtube are you using? I never click on right wing content and constantly get right wing political crap pushed including guns and incels like andrew tate. Clicking "never recommend this channel" only works for a couple of days and they are right back at it. Does that happen with left wing content? No. You are deluded if you think they worked against trump. All I see if them pushing right wing agenda.
Re: Oh nonononono nooo (Score:2)
Aaaah. Now your /. comedian achievement makes sense.
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> The company that rigged the Youtube algorithm and Android and push notifications and search and news filtering to try and influence the election against Trump and censored the Hunter Biden laptop story and pushed Russiagate bullshit and covered up Burisma is asking Trump not to break them up. I bet I know the answer to that one.
I hate when my Facebook feed ends up on Slashdot.
It will work (Score:5, Insightful)
Why else do you think they donated to the inauguration and renamed the Gulf? Anyone with actual ethics would say this is stupid Donald don't you have more important matters?
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Trump never shut up about Obama golfing. [1]https://www.independent.co.uk/... [independent.co.uk]
[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-golf-crisis-barack-obama-us-election-2020-b1673677.html
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> Why else do you think they donated to the inauguration and renamed the Gulf?
To be fair, renaming the gulf was just application of longstanding, globally-applied policy. Google Maps always shows the government-specified geographic names to users within that government's territory. So as soon as the Federal Geographic Data Committee's database changed the name, so did Google Maps. In the event the government-specified name is disputed by the rest of the world, the policy is that Maps adds the world's name as a parenthetical, which Google Maps does for the gulf. That last part isn'
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Hmm. Actually I notice that the parenthetical "Gulf of Mexico" is no longer showing on Google Maps. So maybe they did cave on that part.
Why Trump Won (Score:1)
All of big tech came together to make sure Trump won to prevent the DOJ from breaking up monopolies.
If the governement can't do this (Score:2)
Then why do we have a government? They have bungled every tech monopoly case and pander to their lawyers.
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> Then why do we have a government?
Starting with Ronald Reagan, the purpose of the United States government is to protect and enrich the corporations. While some have, at moments, chosen to speak towards the helping the American people, if you actually pay attention to the way our elected officials vote, the way they carry out their policies, all of them Democrat or Republican, do everything they can to protect and enrich the corporations and those that own the corporations. When the 2008 financial crisis hit, our government scrambled with e
Late stage capitalism = fascism (Score:3)
I'm sure a large donation to Trump and rigidly following the fascist's rules will make this problem go away.
bye bye free (Score:2)
If Google is broken up, get ready to start paying for stuff that used to be "free." Such as Google maps and directions, gmail, google voice, and numerous others. The search ad revenue supports these other products, which in turn provide data into selling ads.
So its become too big to fail (Score:4, Interesting)
They poisoned Firefox with the new "privacy policy" and murdered Pale Moon by flagging it as a "bot" on Cloudflare. Big Tech = Trump Tech. I don't care if its a conspiracy anymore, Slashdot already modded me down for my Palladium post.
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Too big to fail is possibly an end goal. Microsoft made a mistake by having Internet Explorer "illegally tied" to Windows. What you have to do is make every single thing you do utterly dependent on all your other pieces. You can't break up Google without breaking Google and I think that's what they were going for in the first place.
Re: So its become too big to fail (Score:2)
Microsoft did that. As a consequence they were not required to remove the bulk of the browser from their OS, only the part that most people were just familiar with.
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The Govts remedies are vastly inadequate. You totally can break up - and need to break up - Google. What they have done to the web is as close to annihilation as it gets. They have laid waste to the entire affiliate industry. 10's of thousands of sites are gone. thousands of SEO's and affiliates had to go to work "in house" some where because Google has slaughtered their income. Breaking up Google is as simple as: Break off Youtube, Android, Fiber, Gmail, and Chrome). Anything less than that, is woefully i