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A judge in the United States has ruled that Google spent billions of dollars to create an illegal monopoly for its search engine, exploiting its dominance to squash competition and stifle innovation.

Monday’s landmark decision that Google broke antitrust law marks the first major success for US authorities taking on the dominance of Big Tech, which has come under fire from across the political spectrum.

“The court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” US District Judge Amit Mehta wrote in his 277-page ruling.

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[-] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The right move would be to break them up. Separate all the business units that collude to abuse their monopoly power.

Knowing the recent history of US anti-trust, it'll drag on for years and the government will settle for a money judgement and an agreement to stop doing things that they don't need to do anymore.

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