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aucisson_masque ◴[05 Sep 25 20:51 UTC] No.45143447[source]▶

What the US couldn't do, Europe just did ?

> The Commission has already signalled its preliminary view that only the divestment by Google of part of its services would address the situation of inherent conflicts of interest, but it first wishes to hear and assess Google's proposal.

aka, breaking a monopoly.

thanks god for Europe.

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1. dragonwriter ◴[05 Sep 25 20:56 UTC] No.45143499[source]▶

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> What the US couldn't do, Europe just did ?

The remedy phase in the US trial over similar ad tech issues starts later this month, so it is premature to call it “what the US couldn’t do”.

(You may be confusing it with the recent partial ruling in the remedy phase of the separate search antitrust case.)

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