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Judge rules Google illegally monopolized adtech, opening door to potential breakup  | TechCrunch

A federal judge has found that Google violated antitrust laws by “willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power” in the advertising technology

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Ms. Que BanhAug 7, 2024

#PublicHealthCare should never be #monetized & #monopolized for profits. Doing so results in more avoidable deaths, disabilities & illnesses - it never results in better patient quality care. Monetizing #HealthCare makes it #inaccessible for majority of citizens who need it the most.

Fight all levels of government to keep public health care - public & fight for changes so that it is actually accessible to all citizens & not just the privileged.

#StopAbleism #HumanRights #Medical #HippocraticOath #HealthCareForAll #CovidIsNotOver

Kevin Karhan Nov 7, 2023

Now I know why #iPhone|s basically #monopolized #Smartphones in #Japan:

#SoftBank basically gave them away in subsidized plans!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Q_4vjPMSE&t=1078s

The Inevitable Decline of WeWork

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Show threadRicardo HarvinSep 23, 2023

"I've long said, when I think #climate—not a joke—I think jobs." – President #JoeBiden

That lack of insight into and appreciation of the literal #existential threat to #humans of our ongoing and worsening #ClimateChange disaster is a clear indication that #Biden is too removed from reality.

"It's humanity, stupid."

The Everything, Everywhere, All at Once strategy can't work if key solutions are #monopolized.

A #solar #monopoly by any entity is a global threat.

https://youtu.be/zrn8VmEF5LI?si=bzGGsaQ_mczNeQMx

Why the US is Losing the Solar Race to China

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Igor HolasJul 10, 2023
This is where #Mastodon and #fediverse show their importance - we cannot have one #monopolized social network. But we can have an interoperable #federated network of social networks that talk to each other. So that we all have a choice without nuking the whole idea and convenience of #socialnetworks. https://mas.to/@Andii/110689864409113183
Andii אַנדִֽי (@[email protected])

Cory Doctorow on the money again: "The problem with, say, Meta, is only partially that Mark Zuckerberg is personally monumentally unsuited to serving as the unelected, unaccountable permanent social media czar for three billion people. The real problem is that no one should have that job. That job shouldn’t exist. We don’t need to find a better Mark Zuckerberg. We need to abolish Mark Zuckerberg." #enshittification #socialMedia #democracy #privacy https://doctorow.medium.com/let-the-platforms-burn-6fb3e6c0d980

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Show threadIgor SovcikDec 21, 2022
Logic behind this #project is mostly to make myself glasses i dont need to change for my entire life. At least not from design standpoint. Color may wary. And i also don´t like the idea to spend between 6-10k€ for glasses in my lifetime as average person with #prescription_glasses spends. If i break this frame i can easily just pop out glasses and push them into new frame costing me 0.2€ Also whole frame industry is #monopolized (single company dominated) piece of sh**.
zeruchMay 3, 2022
"...the complaint paints a damning picture of how #Google has #monopolized all of the critical informational choke points in the online #ad business between publishers and advertisers; as one employee put it, it’s as if Google owned a bank and the New York Stock Exchange, only more so." #adtech always is trash. Always. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/01/unredacted-antitrust-complaint-shows-googles-ad-business-even-scummier-than-many-imagined.html
Unredacted Antitrust Complaint Shows Google's Ad Business Even Scummier than Many Imagined | naked capitalism

Even more ugly details about Google misbehavior in the online ad market.

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