"When NBC published their background conversation with Google yesterday the media outlet made a big legal mistake. NBC outlined the mechanics of a racketeering and antitrust violation, via Google’s power to control on-line ad revenue as a weapon to target NBC’s competition"

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[–]malthuswaswrong 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

TIL slashdot still exists! They were super early on the woke train. That's one of the reasons I first started using reddit 12 years ago.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Google wants antitrust laws passed. So does Facebook.

It kills almost all competition, because they will be able to "compete" with themselves.

Standard Oil pulled the same trick about a hundred years ago.

[–]cant_even 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

...and AT&T allowed itself to be "broken up" in 1982-3, and has since re-assembled itself.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Is there a link to the original article?

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Looks like it came from Twitter, look at the last line. Anyway, both of them are in deep shit as they let the cat out of the bag.