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
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.