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Anti-Trust @lemmy.ml jackalope @lemmy.ml Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/28825972
It's damned hard to prove an antitrust case: so often, the prosecution has to prove that the company intended to crush competition, and/or that they raised prices or reduced quality because they knew they didn't have to fear competitors.
It's a lot easier to prove what a corporation did than it is to prove why they did it. What am I, a mind-reader? But imagine for a second that the corporation in the dock is a global multinational. Now, imagine that the majority of the voting shares in that company are held by one man, who has served as the company's CEO since the day he founded it, personally calling every important shot in the company's history.
Now imagine that this founder/CEO, this accused monopolist, was an incorrigible blabbermouth, who communicated with his underlings almost exclusively in writing, and thus did he commit to immortal digital storage a stream – a torrent – of memos in which he explici
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Anti-Trust @lemmy.ml jackalope @lemmy.ml Google is an online advertising monopoly, judge rules
www.cnn.com Google is an online advertising monopoly, judge rules | CNN BusinessGoogle has illegally built “monopoly power” with its web advertising business, a federal judge in Virginia has ruled, siding with the Justice Department in a landmark case against the tech giant that could reshape the basic economics of running a modern website.
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Anti-Trust @lemmy.ml jackalope @lemmy.ml 
democracyjournal.org Anti-Monopoly Is the Path ForwardDemocrats have scored some nice wins against corporate oligarchs—and drawn clear lines. They must not stop.
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blog.mozilla.org Mozilla’s response to proposed remedies in U.S. v. Google | The Mozilla BlogLast week the Department of Justice and some state attorneys general filed revised proposed remedies in the U.S. v. Google LLC search case. If the proposed
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/18863675
Interesting (but not surprising) what Mozilla's stance is.
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Anti-Trust @lemmy.ml jackalope @lemmy.ml SpaceX Begging Feds To Ground Apple-Funded Rival's Satellites
www.jalopnik.com SpaceX Begging Feds To Ground Apple-Funded Rival's Satellites - JalopnikSpaceX sent a request to the Federal Communications Commission last week to block Globalstar from launching a new Canadian-built 48-satellite constellation
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26654808
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Anti-Trust @lemmy.ml jackalope @lemmy.ml 
economictimes.indiatimes.com Alphabet's Google urges US government to avoid breaking up firm, source saysThe US Department of Justice is currently pursuing two anti-monopoly cases against Google - one over search and another over advertising technology. The department has laid out potential remedies in the search case, including making Google divest parts of its business such as the Chrome Web browser ...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/40124936
