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58. Well they probably dislike democrats generally

Wed Oct 29, 2025, 11:31 AM

Oct 29

It must be a relief to them to not have to pretend to be progressive. I never bought it..it seemed so superficial.
I can’t imagine they liked Biden much after Lina Khan:

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-rage-of-google

The Rage of Google
The DOJ put forward a proposal to take apart the search giant's market power. What happens when antitrust stops being polite, and starts getting real?
MATT STOLLER
OCT 11, 2024

“Where we think it really harms our ability to innovate on behalf of our users, we are going to be vigorous in defending ourselves.” - Google CEO Sundar Pichai

What happens when antitrust becomes a reality for a company’s executives? For eight years or so, Google has been in the cross-hairs of public opinion, with lots of chatter about their monopoly. But it’s all been theoretical, just some Congressional hearings with grandstanding politicians, mean stories in the jealous New York Times, complaints from rivals and customers, tweets from Trump, etc. Google leaders and stakeholders could waive that stuff away, pretend they wouldn’t face consequences, that they could just set lawyers on the problem, and float above it all.

And that wasn’t a crazy view. In fact, it would have been weird if they didn’t think that. No large tech firm has even faced a monopolization challenge since the 1990s, let alone lost one. So in the mid-2010s, when the chatter and investigation started, well, any consequences would be a long way off. In 2020, when the first antitrust cases were filed, it wouldn’t seem to matter either. The precedent was on the side of Google, and even if it wasn’t, it would be years before anyone at Google would have to face the music.

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I know SocialDemocrat61 Oct 29 #13

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It's just low-rent nastiness for no reason Stacey Grove Oct 29 #20

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Well they probably dislike democrats generally jfz9580m Oct 29 #58

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It's the past tense of the verb "to learn" Stacey Grove Oct 29 #44

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