• Queen HawlSera
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    12 years ago

    Oh I imagine the papers are being filed as we speak, because this is blatantly illegal.

    • @sweeny@sh.itjust.works
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      02 years ago

      What law are they breaking? Not trying to defend Google or anything, just curious what law is blatantly being broken here because I don’t know of one

      • Queen HawlSera
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        2 years ago

        It’s an anti competition law, they cannot penalize you for using a competitor service. This would be like getting fined by McDonald’s because I went to Taco Bell.

      • Laurel Raven
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        12 years ago

        Blatantly anticompetitive behavior where you (ab)use your dominance in one sector (i.e. YouTube) to choke out competition in another (i.e. make it slow on competing browsers) is illegal in the US and the EU, at the very least. I don’t know the specific laws or acts in play, but that’s the sort of thing that triggers antitrust lawsuits