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How about we start restricting how many businesses a company is allowed to buy out in a year. Maybe allow like 1-2 mergers a year. There no reason we should allow one company to buy everyone and then kill their products and services leaving the consumers holding the bag that will no longer function because the server is gone.
Maybe if all their shadiness hadn't been allowed in the first place they wouldn't have been able to become a monopoly.
But please, I beg of you, do Adobe next.
I remember the days of google being a cool startup that had just made news releasing gmail with a whopping 1GB of storage making everyone go crazy for the invites. It's a strange feeling.
Hell, do all the "to big to fail" megacorps.
Don't 'break it up', nationalize it, and do the same with all these other giant corporations.
Profits could support UBI instead of encouraging billionaires.
That's not in anyone's interest. It's the surest way to have a thousand national search engines which are all shitty. National walled internet Gardens etc
Break it up instead
Do it do it do it do it do it do it...
Smash them with a hammer. Google should not exist as it is. Not for decades.
Break up AdSense, chrome, search, android, shatter them all into separate companies that can stop selling out literally every waking aspect of life as their sole business model.
God I hope it ends up splitting off Chrome. I think Google has done a great job with Chrome. But the recent Manifest v3 makes it clear they're going to greatly degrade their users' experience for Google's bottom line. And they're using their market dominance to do it.
Best news I've heard all day! Break up Meta, too, while you're at it!
Separate the search engine from anything that stinks of advertising so it can return to what itβs supposed to do: return the most relevant results.
Because even appending udm=14 only gets rid of promoted links and in-page advertising, it does f**k-all to correct manipulated search results.
What about Microsoft and Facebook?
How do the people who make this comment every single time something like this happens, expect change when no one's allowed to be first?
Microsoft already lost an anti-trust suit in 2001. It's in the article if you care to read it.
I so want this to happen, but at the same time I'm scared that Samsung or whoever will buy AOSP and enshittify it completely
A dog that barks doesn't bite.
"Considering" means they want to get something from Google in exchange for not breaking it up.
Will this work out for consumers if other tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, or Amazon, etc. aren't also broken up simultaneously? Won't Google's assets just get sucked up into another existing monopoly and we'll be right back where we were but with one less choice than before?
I'm genuinely curious.
So they're breaking up Google but giving Intel more free money after it cut 15k jobs?
Google also cut 12000 jobs in Jan 2023, but it does not have an AMD or Nvidia to kick its ass in search when it fucks up.
Will the old method of breaking up a company work enough on modern tech companies? Will the 2nd best map software ever catch up in market share?
If you switched most people from google into DDG without telling, most would hardly notice, I venture. Mapping is different.
Fully support the action, don't know how the timing works...
Best case, you only start to basically outline what this looks like before the election. Worst case, you enliven the complacent, left-centrist billionaires to vigorously join in with the perpetually batshit right wing billionaires to get trump in to "live to fight another day" with the reasoning of, "we need to save ourselves first, then we'll deal with trump when he goes full fascist" and then they either won't be able to or won't care to because they won't want to upset their share price.
PBMs/healthcare conglomerating needs to be looked at as a top priority
And this Kroger Albertsons thing needs to be stopped for good
It would probably do Google a world of good, depending on what gets split or spun off. A lot of Google products have unrealized potential thatβs hamstrung by poor leadership and privacy issues. Maybe at least some of their products will be able to thrive on their own.
The people here who 1) think a breakup of Google will actually happen, and 2) think that a paid subscription model for a search engine have all been spending too much time in their Linux bubble.
If Google did this, everyone would just switch to Bing, or open AI's new thing they are making. The general public will not be on board with that.
A tiny bandaid on the capitalism that's literally destroying the planet.