Pluralistic: The worst possible antitrust outcome (03 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow is rightfully enraged:

This is all downside. If Google complies with the order, it will constitute a privacy breach on a scale never before seen. If they don’t comply with the order, it will starve competitors of the one tiny drop of hope that Judge Mehta squeezed out of his pen. It’s a catastrophe. An utter, total catastrophe. It has zero redeeming qualities. Hope you like enshittification, folks, because Judge Mehta just handed Google an eternal licence to enshittify the entire fucking internet.

  • Novocirab@feddit.org
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    12 days ago

    But the DoJ could appeal. If MAGA’s promises about holding Big Tech to account mean anything at all, the DoJ would appeal.

    I’ll bet you a testicle⹋ that the DoJ will not appeal. After all, Trump’s DoJ now has a cash register at the reception desk, and if you write a check for a million bucks to some random MAGA influencer, they can make all charges disappear:

    And if you’re waiting for Europe to jump in and act where America won’t, don’t hold your breath. EU Commission sources leaked to Reuters that the EU is going to drop its multi-billion euro fine against Google because they don’t want to make Trump angry