Now that Google is a monopolist, what’s next?
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It might be a while before we find out.

A federal judge has ruled that Google has an illegal monopoly in the US. “The market reality is that Google is the only real choice” as the default search engine, Judge Amit Mehta said in his decision, and he determined it had gotten that way unfairly. It’s a ruling that could portend big changes for the company, but we yet don’t know how big, and we might not for years.

Mehta declared on Monday that Google was liable for violating antitrust laws, vindicating the Department of Justice and a coalition of states that sued the tech giant in 2020. The next step — deciding on remedies for its illegal conduct — begins next month. Both parties must submit a proposed schedule for remedy proceedings by September 4th and then appear at a status conference on September 6th.

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
    42·
    4 months ago

    What happens now is that Google appeals and then the case will bounce around different courts for years to come, and maybe one day the supreme court will hear it assuming that US lasts that long as a country.

    • SoylentBlake@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      4 months ago

      Yip. I took the government what, 17 years…? from suing to breaking up AT+T, and they were the largest company in America that entire time.

      At+t tried to slap em with some exorbitant long distance charges and Uncle Sam got tired of the fuck around.

      To today; Google’s been showing the wrong people the wrong kind of ads. Showing representatives ads for laundromats and daycares that offer drivinga ed after looking up how to launder money and traffic children. NO google, I did NOT mean THAT