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Google violated antitrust laws as it built an internet search empire, a federal judge ruled on Monday in a decision that could have major implications for the way people interact with the internet.

Judge Amit Mehta found that Google violated section 2 of the Sherman Act, a US antitrust law. His decision states that Google maintained a monopoly over search services and advertising.

“After having carefully considered and weighed the witness testimony and evidence, the court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” the ruling states.

The ruling is one of the largest antitrust decisions in decades, capping off a case that pitted the justice department against one of the world’s most valuable companies. It was also part of a broader push in recent years from the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission, as well as European regulators, to scrutinize big tech companies for allegedly monopolistic practices.There was no jury in the trial, which began in September of last year before taking a long hiatus for Mehta to consider a ruling. Closing arguments wrapped up in the first week of May, with Mehta concluding the trial by stating that he was aware of the gravity of the case for both Google and the public.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is surprising IMO, the trend the past almost 3 decades (since the Clinton administration) has been to give the giants a free pass on almost everything. Bush ended the case against Microsoft, and since then there has been zero big case victories for competition and consumers that I can remember.

Maybe pressure from Europe helped, we've seen a lot of high profile rulings from EU, so maybe it's "get your shit together, or we will do it for you" kind of situation?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And they just made that exclusive deal with reddit

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Thats crazy because in the timeline i came from, everyone knew Google was a monopoly 20 years ago!

Have you guys boycotted facebook for stealing your information yet? We started talking about that back in 2012.

And you all abandoned Youtube for being inconsistent with their copyright process and how they monetize creators, right? Right?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I am completely guilty of this line of thinking. 'We' knew this long ago. 'We' being the minority of the population who took the extra modicum of effort to even think about the issue.

[–] Reverendender 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

im either joking, a liar or a time traveler

Occams Razor would suggest I'm probably not a time traveler

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah sure, John Titor.

[–] nobody158 2 points 1 month ago

That's what a time traveler would say

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I just switched to duckduckgo. Better results, not inundated with ads. Search for software on Google and the first 3-5 results, at least, are sponsored scam links.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Better results

That's not generally my experience. I still try DDG first, but probably 20-25% of the time, I have to switch back to Google. Oddly, not for the stuff in Japanese or related to Japan, but more tech and other such.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

i must be doing something wrong because to me, duckduckgo doesnt even work as well as AskJeeves did in 2001

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Marginalia is where the good shit is.

[–] Reverendender 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

10k Lemmy Bucks says that Google won't be fined but will have to agree and make active changes to how they do things for the next two years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

A mmmillion dollars?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago

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