ModerateImprovement@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-211 months agoUS Court Rules Google a Monopoly in 'Biggest Antitrust Case of the 21st Century'.www.commondreams.orgexternal-linkmessage-square177linkfedilinkarrow-up1198arrow-down12file-text
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Voice Of America: Google loses massive antitrust case over its search dominance. The Conversation: A US Court has ruled Google is an illegal monopoly – and the internet might never be the same.
minus-squareanticurrent@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·edit-211 months agoMark my words! the outcome of this will be like a mountain giving birth to a mouse. Microsoft came out of such antitrust lawsuit unscathed and a decade later went back to pushing its browser down everyone’s throat.
minus-squareWoahWoah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·11 months agoA mountain giving birth to a mouse? Is that a translation from another language? I’m not being critical, it’s just oddly specific and bizarre.
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoWhat did we expect? There’s no “monopolistic competition” in an industry where everything depends on everything. We granted them a monopoly and now play whack-a-mole when that monopoly gets “too” big.
Mark my words! the outcome of this will be like a mountain giving birth to a mouse.
Microsoft came out of such antitrust lawsuit unscathed and a decade later went back to pushing its browser down everyone’s throat.
A mountain giving birth to a mouse? Is that a translation from another language? I’m not being critical, it’s just oddly specific and bizarre.
What did we expect? There’s no “monopolistic competition” in an industry where everything depends on everything. We granted them a monopoly and now play whack-a-mole when that monopoly gets “too” big.