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DOJ: Google must sell Chrome, Android could be next (arstechnica.com)

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

This is the single worst possible time to try and push this through.

Which is why it's happening now, I agree.

But we, the non-billionaires are still better off after any monopoly split. It's hard to express how incredibly bad powerful monopolies are. The fact that another billionaire will be the buyer sucks, but it's no reason to back away from forcing the legally required split.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Chrome is a monopoly by itself already. And forcing Google to sell, only to have Microsoft buying it is actually worse then the current situation.

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