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DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg reports (neuters.de)

submitted 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Lit. It's a good ask although it's not clear what separation means here. Not going to hold my breath, the big corpos seem to usually win these kind of games.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Chrome is now owned by a separate conpany with the same major stock holders.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 hours ago

It's like they're a company pretending to be another company, disguised as another company. Tropic Thunder all the way down.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Chrome is now owned by a company, owned by a company, owned by another company, that is owned by Google.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

And even in the case where there is actual separation, and competition, it will only be temporary!

see history of telco consolidation after a monopoly breakup in 1984

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Why doesn’t this have sprint?