How to Hide a $2 Trillion Antitrust Trial
The mistrust and fear in the courtroom were reflected globally by governments upset by Google’s privacy policies and businesses worried that Google’s disruptive practices would target them next.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
The Antitrust Division will hopefully respond with “No, your search engine was awesome, but it’s increasingly ad-filled crap. You’re too powerful, you’re too lazy, and America needs some real competition.”
Matt Stoller • The First Big Antitrust Trial of the Century Is About to Start
Faith Hahn added
having failed to make openness illegal using state power, the oligopolists are now trying to make it irrelevant using private power, network effects and hard-wired filters.
James Boyle • Misunderestimating openness – Open Future
madisen added
How can we make the case for publicness in a culture that’s very used to private companies?
ro khanna • Ro Khanna makes the case for digital public space
Keely Adler added
How Google missed this moment is not a simple matter of a blind spot. It’s a case of an incumbent being so careful about its business, reputation, and customer relationships that it refused to release similar, more powerful tech. And it’s far from the end of the story.
Alex Kantrowitz • Why Google Missed ChatGPT
sari added
Google was the endpoint of this process: It may represent open systems and leveled architecture, but with superb irony and strategic brilliance it came to almost completely control that openness. It's difficult to imagine another industry so thoroughly subservient to one player. In the Google model, there is one distributor of movies, which also ow... See more
Michael Wolff • The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet
sari added
wow. an amazing 325 page google strategy document quietly unsealed buried in google antitrust docket. It's gonna take a long thread but I have pulled out the gems. It's from 2017 planning, no doubt Google will just say these were only ideas but many will look very familiar. /1 https://t.co/aQzSlKQQlU
Levi Lian added