misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 hours agoA Google breakup is on the table, say DOJ lawyerswww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1253arrow-down11file-textcross-posted to: googlebusiness@lemmy.world
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minus-squarethehatfox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·7 hours agoYears ago a Microsoft breakup was also once on the table, but it never happened. I wouldn’t get too excited that regulators will follow through with this for Google either.
minus-squareBilliam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 hours agoLet us also not forget the Ma Bell breakup and what happened thereafter.
minus-squareFenrirIII@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours ago“Somehow… Ma Bell returned.”
Years ago a Microsoft breakup was also once on the table, but it never happened.
I wouldn’t get too excited that regulators will follow through with this for Google either.
Let us also not forget the Ma Bell breakup and what happened thereafter.
“Somehow… Ma Bell returned.”