[Industry] US regulators seek to separate Chrome from Google, and other monopoly measures.

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[Industry] US regulators seek to separate Chrome from Google, and other monopoly measures.

#1 Post by donald »

Late Breaking News from the Associated Press:

Click the link and read please.
https://apnews.com/article/google-search-monopoly-penalty-justice-department-84e07fec51c5c59751d846118cb900a7 wrote: U.S. regulators want a federal judge to break up Google to prevent the company from continuing to squash competition through its dominant search engine after a court found it had maintained an abusive monopoly over the past decade.

The proposed breakup floated in a 23-page document filed late Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Justice calls for sweeping punishments that would include a sale of Google’s industry-leading Chrome web browser and impose restrictions to prevent Android from favoring its own search engine.

A sale of Chrome “will permanently stop Google’s control of this critical search access point and allow rival search engines the ability to access the browser that for many users is a gateway to the internet,” Justice Department lawyers argued in their filing.

Although regulators stopped short of demanding Google sell Android too, they asserted the judge should make it clear the company could still be required to divest its smartphone operating system if its oversight committee continues to see evidence of misconduct.
Interesting news. I wonder what the time frame for this case was in consideration of the Microsoft anti-trust case from 2001 which started in 1990, then 1993, 1994, then 1998.

Lets keep politics out of this thread despite this action looking like it or ... maybe not looking like it :xeyes:. :)

Wonder how this will affect Android and other Development.
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Re: [Discussion] US regulators seek to separate Chrome from Google, and other monopoly measures.

#2 Post by Uptorn »

I'd wanted to share this news in the Privacy browser for Debian as a Chrome divestment would likely affect some of the issues raised there.

The regulatory process is consistently slow as ever, being that we techies could see this monopoly clear as day almost a decade ago. And they are only just now getting around to actioning anything.

Being that civic functions are now (for better or for worse) tied to the usage of such software, it would make sense for there to be a reference implementation published by governmental bodies. Commercial browsers that wish to connect users to civic functions; court attendance, tax payment, registrations, etc, should adhere to the publicly posted spec. I say this as somebody who normally shudders at the idea of government involvement in anything tech.

On the Debian side of things, I would welcome the addition of any feature complete browser beside the likes of Chromium and Firefox ESR. That is if this breakup would translate into the spawning of new open source, feature complete, independent browsers at all.

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#3 Post by wizard10000 »

I think this is gonna take about as long as it did to corral Microsoft so Google has about eleven years to figure out what they're gonna do. My magic 8-ball says to expect many lawsuits :mrgreen:
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#4 Post by friendlysalmon88 »

IMHO, The US federal government in addition to state,county and City governments have always and will always be chained indefinitely to monopolies like Apple,Google Microsoft and several other mega caps such as Zuckerbergs Meta etc,etc.. I'm really not holding out much hope that the Department Of Justice will most likely be stalled time and time again as the case separate Googles search engine division from their advertising and cloud compute divisions.

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