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In light of articles all over Lemmy about Google pushing ManifestV3 onto Chrome and the majority of web users, isn't that an antitrust violation? (www.ftc.gov)

submitted 2 years ago by SankaraStone@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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So as I understand it, Google’s using it’s monopoly market position to force web “standards” unilaterally (without an independent/conglomerate web specification standards where Google is only one of many voices) that will disadvantage its competitors and force people to leave its competitors.

I'm not a lawyer, and I'm a fledgling tech guy, but this sounds like abuse of a monopoly. Google which serves 75% of the world's ads and has 75% of the browser market share seems to want to use its market power to annihilate people's privacy and control over their web experience.

So we can file a complaint with FTC led by Lina Khan who has been the biggest warrior against abuse by big tech in the US.

https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/report-antitrust-violation

We can also file a complaint with the DOJ:

https://www.justice.gov/atr/citizen-complaint-center

And there have to be EU, UK, Indian, Chinese, and Japanese organizations that we can file antitrust complaints to.

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[–] mojo@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago

You can't have antitrust and capitalism, they are fundamentally opposites. And only one has actual enforceable power.

[–] skellener@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

They hate the idea of a free and open web.

[–] gamer@lemm.ee -2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The FTC couldn’t stop the Microsoft Activision acquisition, the largest tech acquisition in history, even though it was blatantly anticompetitive, and even though the FTC chair and the judge were both Biden appointees (although the judge was both incompetent and potentially biased towards Microsoft, but still)

My point being, what are the chances they’ll be able to stop something like this? Antitrust enforcement is dead in this country. The megacorps won.

[–] Default_Defect@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Maybe they should have gone after mergers/buyouts that matter more, rather than trying to stop sony's feelings from getting hurt?

[–] SankaraStone@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I am so disappointed. With that attitude, we can't accomplish anything. With that attitude, our ancestors would have accomplished nothing

Yeah, Lina Khan lost that fight. But he's not the only judge out there. And the United States isn't the only country Google and Chrome are responsible to.

Didn't the UK block the acquisition?

[–] Default_Defect@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Their entire argument was about cloud gaming's future and no one gives a shit about cloud gaming.

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