DOJ and state attorneys general are preparing to bring antitrust lawsuits against Google.

[osxmatt]

 

[CitizenVectron]

It's probably for the wrong reasons, but good. They need to be broken up.

[Jason]

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The Justice Department is moving toward bringing a case as soon as this summer, some of the people said. At least some state attorneys general—led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican—are likely to file a case, probably in the fall, people familiar with the matter said.

 

So is it all red state AGs? If it is, Google is just going to argue that this is politically motivated because Trump thinks they're biased against him.

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

24 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

So is it all red state AGs? If it is, Google is just going to argue that this is politically motivated because Trump thinks they're biased against him.

SCOTUS 5-4 "no"

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

28 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

So is it all red state AGs? If it is, Google is just going to argue that this is politically motivated because Trump thinks they're biased against him.

No, it's not just red states.

 

ALL of the state attorneys general have been investigating Google since last year.

[mclumber1]

2 hours ago, CitizenVectron said:

It's probably for the wrong reasons, but good. They need to be broken up.

 

What do you propose they be broken up into? 

[Signifyin(g)Monkey]

This’ll be new territory.  No one’s ever broken up an informational monopoly before...how do you break up the information on a server? That’s Google’s monopoly.  It’ll be interesting to see how they go about it.

[Anathema-]

2 hours ago, mclumber1 said:

 

What do you propose they be broken up into? 

 

A, B, C, D, E F, and G.

[marioandsonic]

Will they split YouTube into its own company then?

[Jason]

46 minutes ago, Anathema- said:

A, B, C, D, E F, and G.

 

Good one but this is in fact breaking up Google specifically, not Alphabet.

[chakoo]

While this is going to be interesting, if successful I don't think people are going to like what the end results will be nor the knock on effect this will have (if successful, amazon is next). Google Ads pretty much pay for most of google. I also don't really know how they're going to be able to break out GCP from everything either. This also has the knock on effect that any company reliant on google ecosystem might be up shits creek and dead in a year. 

[Keyser_Soze]

Isn't this why people voted against Elizabeth Warren?

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

3 hours ago, chakoo said:

any company reliant on google ecosystem might be up shits creek and dead in a year. 

So just like using any Google software not search or email