A week after a judge ruled that Alphabet’s Google illegally monopolized the online search market, the US Department of Justice is considering options that include breaking up the tech giant, worth some $2tn, according to reports from the New York Times and Bloomberg News.
Divesting the Android operating system was one of the remedies most frequently discussed by justice department attorneys, the reports said.
Officials were also considering trying to force a possible sale of AdWords, Google’s search ad program, and a possible divestment of its Chrome web browser, according to the reports.
I think this is extremely unlikely, the days of the government actually pushing back against corporations in any meaningful way in the US seems largely over.
Even if somehow it did go through, there would be functionally very little impact. They’d sulk a bit about the government stifling “innovation”, walk away with their tail between their legs, and then go back to operating almost entirely unchanged.
US government is a dinosaur. The tech companies have advanced way faster than the government’s conprehension of the sector. Even if the government had the will to control, I am not sure they would know what to do. But that is a non-factor because it seems like as long as tech companies are amicable to helping the military conduct its cacophany of genocides abrod and the federal government with domestic repression, the government does not care what the tech companies are up to.
That’s an insult to Dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are/were fucking awesome, innocent and majestic animals that were wiped out way too soon.
The U.S. government is one of the most evil organizations in all of human history, on par with the Nazis, ISIS, the Order of Nine Angels, Falun Gong, Shen Yun, the Republican party, the Tories, and Turning Point U.S.A.