Summary
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A US judge has ruled that Google doesn’t need to sell off its Android operating system or its Chrome browser in a monopoly case
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However, the tech giant has been ordered to share data with competitors to help open up competition in online search
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The judgment follows a finding that Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in online search
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Google was sued by the US Department of Justice in 2020 over its control of about 90% of the online search market
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Prosecutors accused Google of spending billions of dollars annually to Apple, Samsung, Mozilla and others to be pre-installed as the default search engine
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The US said Google typically pays more than $10bn (£7.8bn) a year for that privilege
Respectfully, what are you going on about?
The EU and UK antitrusts also came to the same conclusion as the US.
Life is a bit more complicated than that, although I would be curious to learn about the alleged similarity in responses from different competition agencies.
Considering the current the state of American society any independent anti trust actions is likely to followed by disproportional threats.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/europe-slaps-google-with-2-95b-euro-fine-over-advertising-monopoly/
Ignoring Trump threats, Europe hits Google with 2.95B euro fine for adtech monopoly - The EU could seek to break up Google’s ad division.
He’s talking about the facade of freedom, justice, and choice falling off the cliff when they’re losing influence on the global scale. Breaking off a surveillance monopoly reduces their reach or makes it more complicated, so they decided not to. antitrust or whatever.
EU and UK are part of the same surveillance pact, if you didn’t know, so its on point why they would reach the same conclusion.