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Justice Department considering push for historic break up of Google after landmark antitrust ruling: report (nypost.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

That hasn't been the case if you look into what happened with Microsoft and browsers.

The other thing is

everyone would still use Google.

Is actually wrong, and what they proved with the antitrust case itself. A huge chunk of the anticompetitive activity was Google paying to be the default because people don't change the default.