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[–] [email protected] 130 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Google needs to be broken up by government.

[–] ArugulaZ 63 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It saddens me to agree with this. Who knew Google would become as oppressive as fucking MICROSOFT?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

« Don’t be evil »

😬😬😬😬

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

They ditched that in 2018. It was long overdue. At least somewhat honest about themselves.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Most smart people who understood capitalism did.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I hear the term 'broken up' a lot in media and discourse, but it's never explained. In your eyes, what actually happens when a government 'breaks up' a corporation? I mean, what are the steps, objectives, and outcomes?

Not being adversarial, I'm just curious.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Not the person you're asking, but my general understanding is that different products would be required to be their own companies, so advertising, Android, and Chrome would all be separate businesses.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I envision it like AT&T's break-up, where the singular Google is broken up into regional companies that will (hopefully) have to compete with each other.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It really wouldn't change anything in the long run. Any company that creates a browser is gonna need some form of income and people aren't willing to pay for a browser. What would be their incentive to continue to work on the browser when they aren't being paid?

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

Same as Firefox. Let search engines (including google) pay them a fair market rate to make them the default browser.