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Google is illegally monopolizing online advertising tech, judge rules

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863 points IdealeZahlen | 1 comments | 17 Apr 25 14:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.92s | source
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tonymet ◴[17 Apr 25 16:39 UTC] No.43719240[source]▶
the FTC is like Jim Cramer. Once they judge a business to be a monopoly, the business falls apart and the monopoly is irrelevant. Look at the hundreds of millions wasted on the Windows / IE monopoly trial. the AT&T break up set American technology back by decades and killed our domestic chip production.
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spamizbad ◴[17 Apr 25 16:54 UTC] No.43719443[source]▶
AT&T was broken up in 1982. Our manufacturing peaked around 1990 and what really pushed it downward was China joining the WTO. We also halted a lot of fab construction domestically after the GFC of '08.
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1. vkou ◴[17 Apr 25 20:22 UTC] No.43721789[source]▶
This is an interesting theory, but US manufacturing output actually peaked ~2022-2024.

US wages paid to manufacturing jobs are going down year-over-year, because of automation, and, uh, other factors. But the amount of products that are produced has grown year over year... Or was growing, until waves at everything in 2025.