The Antitrust Division proposed a comprehensive solution to Google's monopoly, including pushing Apple into search. Now comes a mini-trial where Judge Amit Mehta will decide what to do.
It’s disturbing that companies are prosecuted instead of the people responsible for law violations. I understand the revenue component of fines levied, but how do you change behavior until you make actual people accountable? There’s more accountability for the minimum wage worker than in the boardroom. Disgusting… are we doomed to complete lawlessness? Do what I say not what I do never works. Tone at the top matters and I would love to see accountability.
Google’s Leadership and the board need to be held personally accountable for their actions. The company has been found guilty of engaging in monopolistic practices and the individuals who perpetrated this should be stripped of their gotten gains. It could have a chilling effect on other corporations engaging in these kinds of practices, because those decision makers would need to be more mindful of the law than to their own and the greed of Wall Street.
Personally, I disagree that the amount of data is useful to consumers. I remember the pre-Google era, and remember that the thing that set Google apart in search was the clean interface, accurate results based on search terms, and limited, well labeled advertising. As they got more user data, the product got incrementally worse over time. I do not know how to solve the problem (see Cory Doctorow’s many posts about enshittification,) but would greatly prefer accurate results over “personalized” results.
The fault can be laid at the feet of Wall Street. The doctrine of pursuing infinite growth of money by any means requires that a company has to innovate new features to attract more customers and hold on to existing customers at an unnatural rate.
Google Reader was a fantastic product to keep up with news. Fear of Facebook made Google abandon it in order to shove Google Plus everywhere they could.
Now we are seeing everyone and their second cousin thrice removed chasing after AI to placate Wall Street. It’s a never ending rat race.
My solution is for the government to buy a company once it reaches public utility status and then run it as a cooperative company for the benefit of society. Once peoples taxes pay for a firm then it does not have to chase after money crazily anymore. It can innovate at a much more sedate and natural pace.
Hey! Could you elaborate what is meant by Firefox being “a lobbying arm of Google”? I felt this a bit unfair to Firefox, but I might be missing some information. I’d appreciate some insight. Thanks!
Their money all comes from Google, far disproportionate to the economic value they provide. Google simply funds them because they are a useful political ally.
It’s disturbing that companies are prosecuted instead of the people responsible for law violations. I understand the revenue component of fines levied, but how do you change behavior until you make actual people accountable? There’s more accountability for the minimum wage worker than in the boardroom. Disgusting… are we doomed to complete lawlessness? Do what I say not what I do never works. Tone at the top matters and I would love to see accountability.
Google’s Leadership and the board need to be held personally accountable for their actions. The company has been found guilty of engaging in monopolistic practices and the individuals who perpetrated this should be stripped of their gotten gains. It could have a chilling effect on other corporations engaging in these kinds of practices, because those decision makers would need to be more mindful of the law than to their own and the greed of Wall Street.
Personally, I disagree that the amount of data is useful to consumers. I remember the pre-Google era, and remember that the thing that set Google apart in search was the clean interface, accurate results based on search terms, and limited, well labeled advertising. As they got more user data, the product got incrementally worse over time. I do not know how to solve the problem (see Cory Doctorow’s many posts about enshittification,) but would greatly prefer accurate results over “personalized” results.
The fault can be laid at the feet of Wall Street. The doctrine of pursuing infinite growth of money by any means requires that a company has to innovate new features to attract more customers and hold on to existing customers at an unnatural rate.
Google Reader was a fantastic product to keep up with news. Fear of Facebook made Google abandon it in order to shove Google Plus everywhere they could.
Now we are seeing everyone and their second cousin thrice removed chasing after AI to placate Wall Street. It’s a never ending rat race.
My solution is for the government to buy a company once it reaches public utility status and then run it as a cooperative company for the benefit of society. Once peoples taxes pay for a firm then it does not have to chase after money crazily anymore. It can innovate at a much more sedate and natural pace.
Hey! Could you elaborate what is meant by Firefox being “a lobbying arm of Google”? I felt this a bit unfair to Firefox, but I might be missing some information. I’d appreciate some insight. Thanks!
Their money all comes from Google, far disproportionate to the economic value they provide. Google simply funds them because they are a useful political ally.
Do you know why your main publication (BIG) doesn't allow restacks of specific quotes?