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dredmorbius@diaspora.glasswings.com
Doc Morbius

What do you do with a problem like Google?

Or more technically Alphabet.

The company's quite clearly not only a monopoly (duh) but an abusive one (duh), and has been for years, if not decades.

It's also, however, a rather complex assemblage of bits which as I've noted in the past has an interesting combination of both rent-seeking activities (advertising) and stuff that looks strongly like "public goods" in the technical economic sense: nonrivalrous and nonexcludable in consumption with near-nil marginal costs: search, browser development, and a bunch of other stuff.

Along with roles which don't fit well into traditional anti-trust space, most especially an insane level of data aggregation and control over flows (Web, email, consumption, real-space audio and video monitoring, and more).

I'm not fully up to speed on recent judicial findings (DC Circuit judge Amit P. Mehta), though I've followed some discussion.

Past anti-trust cases have involved regional divestment (AT&T, funny how that worked out), consent decrees (AT&T again ~1954, IBM, Xerox, Kodak, Microsoft, Facebook, Google), which have had some useful benefits (AT&T's exclusion from software/computer markets directly gave rise to Unix, Linux, and much of MacOS, Microsoft slowed down a smidge after its 1990s knuckle-rap), but leave me underwhelmed.

Anyhow, have at it, discuss. Seriously if at all possible, thanks.

Reshares welcomed, discussion on original if possible.

#Google #AlphabetInc #Antitrust #monopoly #AntitrustRemedies

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anonymiss@despora.de
anonymiss

#Hackers could #spy on cell #phone users by abusing #5G baseband flaws, researchers say

source: https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/07/hackers-could-spy-on-cellphone-users-by-abusing-5g-baseband-flaws-researchers-say/

Using a custom-made analysis tool they called #5GBaseChecker, the researchers uncovered #baseband vulnerabilities made by #Samsung, #MediaTek, and #Qualcomm, which are used in phones made by #Google, #OPPO, #OnePlus, #Motorola, and Samsung.

#security #smartphone #technology #communication #privacy #surveillance #hack #hacker #bug #software #problem #news

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katherinebond@diasp.org
Katherine Bond

Joe Biden must bust up the media

Don’t look now, but we just witnessed a major seismic event in American media.

Monday afternoon a federal judge ruled that Google’s parent company violated U.S. antitrust laws. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in the District of Columbia opens the door to a second trial to determine potential remedies to Google's monopolization of the search market. It is the Justice Department's first victory over a monopoly in more than 20 years.

https://www.salon.com/2024/08/06/joe-biden-must-bust-up-the-media/

#monopolies #google #biden #antitrust

Joe Biden must bust up the media

After a historic antitrust ruling against Google, the president has an opportunity to break up the biggest monopoly

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