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Nemo_bis 🌈<a href="https://eupolicy.social/@alderik" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@alderik</a> "May", heh. Are they going to collect further evidence?Full report at <a href="https://www.accc.gov.au/about-us/publications/serial-publications/digital-platform-services-inquiry-2020-25-reports/digital-platform-services-inquiry-final-report-march-2025" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.accc.gov.au/about-us/publications/serial-publications/digital-platform-services-inquiry-2020-25-reports/digital-platform-services-inquiry-final-report-march-2025</a><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/GAFAM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GAFAM</a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antitrust</a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#australia</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"Regulators around the world are working to address competition issues in digital markets, particularly on mobile devices. Several new laws have already been passed, including the UK’s Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (DMCC), Japan’s Smartphone Act, and the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). Australia and the United States are also considering similar legislation with the U.S. Department of Justice pursuing an antitrust case against Apple. Across all of these efforts, common questions arise: How should competition, user choice, and utility be balanced against security concerns? What is proportionate and necessary in relation to security? And how effective is app store review in practice?The DMA is a helpful act to look at as it has been in force the longest and many of these other acts are loosely based on it. The DMA aims to restore contestability, interoperability, choice and fairness back to digital markets in the EU. These fundamental properties of an effectively functioning digital market have been eroded by the extreme power gatekeepers wield via their control of “core platform services”.Under the DMA gatekeepers are only allowed to have strictly necessary, proportionate and justified security measures to protect the integrity of the operating system."<a href="https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/balancing-security-and-fair-competition/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/balancing-security-and-fair-competition/</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EU</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DMA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Monopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Monopolies</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Oligopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Oligopolies</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Antitrust</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Competition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Competition</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Interoperability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Interoperability</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/CyberSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CyberSecurity</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/WebSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WebSecurity</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/OpenWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenWeb</a>

rijoICYMI: Google faces first private collateral estoppel motion after monopoly ruling <a href="https://ppc.land/google-faces-first-private-collateral-estoppel-motion-after-monopoly-ruling/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ppc.land/google-faces-first-private-collateral-estoppel-motion-after-monopoly-ruling/</a> <a href="https://frankfurt.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Google</a> <a href="https://frankfurt.social/tags/Monopoly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Monopoly</a> <a href="https://frankfurt.social/tags/Antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Antitrust</a> <a href="https://frankfurt.social/tags/DigitalMarketing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DigitalMarketing</a> <a href="https://frankfurt.social/tags/Advertising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Advertising</a>

PPC LandICYMI: Google faces first private collateral estoppel motion after monopoly ruling: Advertisers file motion demanding Google be prevented from relitigating monopoly findings after Virginia court established liability for anticompetitive conduct. <a href="https://ppc.land/google-faces-first-private-collateral-estoppel-motion-after-monopoly-ruling/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ppc.land/google-faces-first-private-collateral-estoppel-motion-after-monopoly-ruling/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Google</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Monopoly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Monopoly</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Antitrust</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DigitalMarketing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DigitalMarketing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Advertising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Advertising</a>

Calishat<a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Google</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#legal</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EU</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antitrust</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/SearchEngines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SearchEngines</a> 'Alphabet's Google has proposed more changes to its search results to better showcase rivals in a bid to stave off a possible hefty EU antitrust fine, according to documents seen by Reuters.'<a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/google-offers-tweak-search-results-163157618.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.yahoo.com/news/google-offers-tweak-search-results-163157618.html</a>

ResearchBuzz: FirehoseReuters: Google offers to tweak search results to promote rivals, stave off EU antitrust fine, documents show. “Alphabet’s Google has proposed more changes to its search results to better showcase rivals in a bid to stave off a possible hefty EU antitrust fine, according to documents seen by Reuters.”<a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/22/reuters-google-offers-to-tweak-search-results-to-promote-rivals-stave-off-eu-antitrust-fine-documents-show/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/22/reuters-google-offers-to-tweak-search-results-to-promote-rivals-stave-off-eu-antitrust-fine-documents-show/</a>

Calishat<a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Google</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/advertising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#advertising</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antitrust</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/Turkey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Turkey</a> 'Turkey's antitrust authority will launch a probe into Google's Performance Max (PMAX) to determine if the AI-powered ad campaign product violates competition laws, it said on Friday.'<a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/turkish-competition-authority-launches-probe-093505013.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.yahoo.com/news/turkish-competition-authority-launches-probe-093505013.html</a>

Ben WaberNext was an informative panel on the last year of global antitrust agency adoption of computational tools at Stanford CodeX with friends of the playlist Thibault Schrepel and Teodora Groza, as well as Susana Campuzano Fernández, Lukas Cavada, Despina Pachnou, and Antonio Capobianco <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79iQBVJYOv4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79iQBVJYOv4</a> (3/6) <a href="https://hci.social/tags/antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antitrust</a>

knoppixApple warns Australia 🇦🇺 against app store reform, claiming users can't safely choose their own apps 🛑.Like the EU's DMA, Australia’s plan would enable sideloading 📥, open payments 💸, and reduce app lock-in 🔐.Critics argue Apple’s real motive is profit, not privacy 👀.It’s time we stop mistaking corporate control for user safety. Open ecosystems protect both choice and privacy 🔓.<a href="https://mastodon.social/@eff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@eff</a> <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/apple-australians-youre-too-stupid-choose-your-own-apps" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/apple-australians-youre-too-stupid-choose-your-own-apps</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EFF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EFF</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Apple</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#iOS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iPhone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#iPhone</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AppStore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AppStore</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DMA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Privacy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Antitrust</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TechNews</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"The world is in the midst of a global anti-monopoly wave that keeps on growing. This decade has seen big, muscular antitrust action in the US, the UK, the EU, Canada, South Korea, Japan, Germany, Spain, France, and even China. It’s been a century since the last wave of trustbusting swept the globe, and while today’s monopolists are orders of magnitude larger than their early 20th-century forbears, they also have a unique vulnerability. Broadly speaking, today’s tech giants cheat in the same way everywhere. They do the same spying, the same price-gouging, and employ the same lock-in tactics in every country where they operate, which is practically every country. That means that when a large bloc like the EU makes a good tech regulation, it has the power to ripple out across the planet, benefiting all of us – like when the EU forced Apple to switch to standard USB-C cables to charge their devices, and we all got iPhones with USB-C ports. It makes perfect sense for Australia to import the DMA – after all, Apple and other American tech companies run the same scams on Australians as they do on Europeans."<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/apple-australians-youre-too-stupid-choose-your-own-apps" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/apple-australians-youre-too-stupid-choose-your-own-apps</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Apple</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australia</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Interoperability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Interoperability</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DRM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DRM</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EU</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Monopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Monopolies</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Antitrust</a>

Jan PenfratGood morning Fediverse's EU tech policy nerds! Up today: the <a href="https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@EUCommission</a>'s <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/DMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DMA</a> workshop with <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/gatekeeper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gatekeeper</a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Microsoft</a>. (Sorry <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/NGIForum25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NGIForum25</a> two floors below, no time for you today 😌) We haven't started yet and the room is still empty, but I'm hoping we'll discuss how <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Windows</a> is abused to dominate other markets, by aggressively nudging users to <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Edge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Edge</a>, <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Xbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Xbox</a>, <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/OneDrive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OneDrive</a>, <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChatGPT</a>, etc.<a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/DigitalMarketsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DigitalMarketsAct</a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/competition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#competition</a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antitrust</a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/monopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#monopolies</a>

Global News WorldGoogle faces setback on EU fine as court adviser sides with regulators The European Court of Justice's advocate general recommended in a non-binding opinion that Google's appeal against the fine should be dismissed. <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#business</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/World" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#World</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/Antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Antitrust</a> <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/11249234/google-eu-antitrust-fine-setback-court-adviser-sides-with-regulators/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://globalnews.ca/news/11249234/google-eu-antitrust-fine-setback-court-adviser-sides-with-regulators/</a>

Jan Penfrat<a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Goodnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Goodnews</a>: Advocate-general recommended the European Court of Justice to uphold the 4.1 billion EUR fine against <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Google</a> for abuse of a dominant position in Android.<a href="https://curia.social-network.europa.eu/@Curia/114709096136032575" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://curia.social-network.europa.eu/@Curia/114709096136032575</a><a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/competition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#competition</a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/bigtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bigtech</a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antitrust</a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/dma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dma</a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/digitalrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#digitalrights</a>

PUPUWEB BlogEU Court advocate-general backs €4.12B Google fine for Android antitrust violations, dealing major blow to tech giant. 2018 ruling on suppressing competition through mobile OS dominance moves closer to final confirmation. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Google</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Android</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EU</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Antitrust</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TechNews</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOOGL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GOOGL</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Competition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Competition</a>

Calishat<a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Google</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EU</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#legal</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antitrust</a> 'Juliane Kokott, advocate general at the European Court of Justice, advised the court to throw out Google’s appeal and confirm the fine, which was reduced in 2022 to 4.125 billion euros from 4.34 billion euros previously by the EU’s General Court.'<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/19/google-looks-likely-to-lose-appeal-against-record-4point7-billion-eu-fine.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/19/google-looks-likely-to-lose-appeal-against-record-4point7-billion-eu-fine.html</a>

Bytes EuropeGoogle Faces Uphill Fight in Appealing $4 Billion EU Fine <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/1120292/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.byteseu.com/1120292/</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Android</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/AntiCompetition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AntiCompetition</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Antitrust</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Apple</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigTech</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DigitalMarketsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DigitalMarketsAct</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Europe</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EuropeanCommission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EuropeanCommission</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EuropeanCourtOfJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EuropeanCourtOfJustice</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EuropeanUnion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EuropeanUnion</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#google</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/JulianeKokott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JulianeKokott</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PYMNTSNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PYMNTSNews</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/What" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#What</a>'sHot

WinbuzzerGoogle: EU Court Opinion Paves Way for Record €4.1B Fine<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Google</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Android</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Antitrust</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EU</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Regulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Regulation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DMA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Alphabet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alphabet</a><a href="https://winbuzzer.com/2025/06/19/google-eu-court-opinion-paves-way-for-record-e4-1b-fine-xcxwbn/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://winbuzzer.com/2025/06/19/google-eu-court-opinion-paves-way-for-record-e4-1b-fine-xcxwbn/</a>

AnthonyJust a reminder that Google is an illegal monopolist, having lost three distinct antitrust cases. It looks likely that Google will be treated the way Microsoft was in their famous antitrust loss in the late 1990s, and not be broken up in any significant way. Google absolutely should be broken up, just like AT&T and Standard Oil (and countless other large US monopolists) were before it. Google's wealth and power derives from illegal behavior; this is not in question anymore. Why should they be permitted to keep what courts have decided they stole? 100 years of antitrust law and precedent says that it should not be permitted to keep the spoils of its illegal behavior. It sounds to me like the hesitation to break up Google is largely ideological on the part of the judges and lawyers involved. The failure to break up Microsoft after its antitrust loss is arguably one of the main reasons the US economy is such a monopolized, consolidated mess today, and why so many things are "enshittifying". Breaking up Google and changing that pattern would obviously not cure all ills, but it'd almost surely make a number of things in the economy better for a whole lot of people. In any case, one thing we can all do is look at Google as a bad actor, a law-breaking entity whose power is illegitimate. <a href="https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-is-google-still-in-one-piece" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-is-google-still-in-one-piece</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Google</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Microsoft</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antitrust</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=monopoly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#monopoly</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=useconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USEconomy</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neoliberalism</a>

EuropeGoogle should lose bid to overturn €4.1B EU Android fine, says court adviser – POLITICOKokott’s opinion reinforces the Commission’s view that Google’s conduct — including pre-installing its search app and Chrome browser,… <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Europe</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EU</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antitrust</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigTech</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/courts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#courts</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/JulianeKokott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JulianeKokott</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/markets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#markets</a> <a href="https://www.europesays.com/2175777/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.europesays.com/2175777/</a>

UK<a href="https://www.europesays.com/uk/196732/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.europesays.com/uk/196732/</a> Google should lose bid to overturn €4.1B EU Android fine, says court adviser – POLITICO <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Antitrust</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigTech</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Courts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Courts</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EU</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Europe</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/European" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#European</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EuropeanUnion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EuropeanUnion</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/JulianeKokott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JulianeKokott</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Markets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Markets</a>

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