Daily Archives: 2020-10-20

Article note: Of course. Of course he has a large undisclosed, un-divested financial stake in China. Of course he's been paying taxes there but not here. As soon as he started his "tough on gyna" bluster we should have looked, because his verbal diarrhea is always a fucking tell.

Article note: Oh yeah, here's the Apple we've come to know and love. Their own software uses undocumented APIs that bypass the documented functionality, are not observable to even a sophisticated user, and cause difficult-to-explain nonsensical behavior (..._if_ there is a default rout set it tries to do an NTP sync before the _keyboard_ starts working? What?).

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Enlarge / Will the sun ever set on the Google empire? (credit: 400tmax | Getty Images)

The Department of Justice today filed a landmark antitrust suit against Google, alleging that the company behaved anticompetitively and unfairly pushed out rivals in its search businesses.

A company does not have to be a literal monopoly, with no available competition of any kind, to be in violation of antitrust law. The law is instead primarily concerned with what a company does to attain dominance and what it does with that dominant position once it's at the top. And according to the DOJ's complaint (PDF), Google did indeed abuse its outsized market power to tilt the playing field in its favor and keep potential rivals out.

"Google is the gateway to the Internet," Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen said in a call with reporters. "It has maintained its power through exclusionary practices that are harmful to competition."

Article note: This is a really cool proposal, that frankly sounds way more plausible and scalable than "no one will misuse or leak back doors."