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Dr Pen

"A US judge ruled Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in some ad tech. This is the second time a judge ruled Google willfully engaged in monopolistic practices. The remedies for these rulings are still being worked out but may strengthen the case to have Google's business broken up."

> found via Barry Schwartz on FB.

#google #monopoly #anticompetitive #bigtech #legalnews #platformmonopoly

seroundtable.com/google-monopo

Search Engine Roundtable · Judge: Google Illegally Engaged In Anticompetitive Monopolistic Ad Tech PracticesBy Barry Schwartz
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@ajsadauskas @JessTheUnstill @tomiahonen @fuchsiii obviously, that would've been a good standard for everyone, given that almost all non-#Gaming #Apps these days are #WebApps and at that point we'd not have 100+ MB #bloatware that essentially just loads a #Website and can't even cache shit!

Personally I believe the @europarl_en & @EUCommission could do that and establish as well as enforce an #EC #norm, just as they did with #USBc, #CCS2 and #GDPR!

#Android needs to be better as in being more than just the "lesser evil" compared to iOS!

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petersuber

1/ From the law firm bringing the #antitrust lawsuit against six academic #publishers.
lieffcabraser.com/antitrust/ac

The suit alleges three #anticompetitive practices:
1. agreeing to "fix the price…at zero" for the #labor of authors and peer reviewers;
2. agreeing not to compete for manuscripts, forcing authors to submit to one journal at a time;
3. agreeing to prohibit authors from sharing their work while under peer review, "a process that often takes over a year".

#Monopoly #PriceFixing

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Lieff CabraserAcademic Journal Publishers Antitrust LitigationAcademic Journal Publishers Antitrust Litigation On September 12, 2024, Lieff Cabraser and co-counsel at Justice Catalyst Law filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against six commercial publishers of academic journals, including Elsevier B.V., John Wiley & Sons, Wolters Kluwer NV, and the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), on behalf
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🇨🇦A Wolf in Cheap Clothing🇨🇦

https://www.sootoday.com/national-business/bell-files-injunction-seeking-to-block-rogers-from-broadcasting-warner-bros-content-9164788

💩🇨🇦💩Bell is asking the court to block Canadians from seeing these #Discovery channels for two years — stopping anyone in Canada from distributing them and stopping anyone in #Canada from watching them.

#Bell admits they practiced #anti-competitive behavior with #WB, and want the courts to punish #Canadians for #Rogers deal!

SooToday.com · Bell files injunction seeking to block Rogers from broadcasting Warner Bros. contentTORONTO — Bell Media is seeking an injunction to block Warner Bros. Discovery content from being broadcast after Rogers Communications Inc. takes over as the Canadian rightsholder in January. In a court application filed June 19, the BCE Inc.
#anticompetitive
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Joseph Lim :mastodon:

#US files #antitrust suit against #Apple
"The 88-page lawsuit, filed in US federal court in Newark, New Jersey, said it was focused on “freeing #smartphone markets from Apple’s #anticompetitive and #exclusionary conduct and restoring #competitive to lower smartphone prices for #consumers, reducing fees for #developers, and preserving #innovation for the future”.. Apple has already been subject to antitrust investigations & orders in #Europe, #Japan and #Korea"
> Finally!!
bangkokpost.com/business/gener

https://www.bangkokpost.com · US files antitrust suit against AppleBy Reuters
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