• 200ok@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Alphabet’s Chief Legal Officer Kent Walker, says the DOJ is pushing “a radical interventionist agenda that would harm Americans and America’s global technology leadership.”

    I’m honestly curious how this would “harm Americans”.

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      8 days ago

      Google pretending they have any other nationality other then “the global internet” is cute in a disgusting way.

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      7 days ago

      The same ruling would ban Google from paying other browsers to make Google the default search engine.
      This would kill Firefox and make Chromium the only browser engine that’s left.

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        1 day ago

        It would leave the newly-split-off chrome in the same financial situation as firefox. Arguably a worse one.