They won't under the trump admin

It depends on whether Google bends the knee, as Amazon and Facebook have done.

The Tech coup has already happened and tech has switched sides to red. Google will bend the knee as everybody else did.

Gulf of America would like a word...

The trump admin got this ball rolling way back in 2017.

Just like the TikTok ban they also got the ball rolling on?

The TikTok ban is still happening, some trump donator will end up owning majority of tiktok.

Funny you should mention that: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/10/trump-tik...

Yes, Tik Tok still needs to divest ownership or be banned in the US

I do hope that other countries ban american saas products which are not majority owned by that country.

Would you describe yourself as isolationist?

just pay $10 million to have a sit with him and all your troubles disappear

Be sure to wear your 100k Trump-Watch for the sitdown outside of the Pork Store.

The Biden admin pursued antitrust in tech even more seriously than Trump. That's part of why big tech rallied behind Trump in 2024

It's almost like giving your estates too much power will result in a coup by the estate. A story as old as time but keeps repeating none the less.

>article dated Mar 10, 2025

Trump's DoJ just submitted basically the same remedy proposal last Friday, it's on

As much as I dislike their Chrome practices, I am rather against the idea of forcing them to sell Chrome.

For one, they simply have had a better product, at least in the past. Part of their large monopoly is due to just being better outright for a large portion of users (presumably). Are we to punish making overly-good products?

For another, sell to whom? And why would they be a good steward?

And yet another, there's literally Chromium, which other browsers (built by other corps) use, e.g. Edge, Brave, etc.

Did Google have to open Chromium? No.

Disclaimer: I hold these opinions weakly and would love to learn more about why they might be ill-premised.

>Did Google have to open Chromium? No.

Google did not make Chromium from scratch, and so were obligated to use a license compatible with the previous source they used. That source can be traced back to KDE's Konqueror browser and its KHTML engine.

Your argument is that Google couldn't possibly have written their own web engine and browser at a time when Firefox and IE were the alternative options?

I'm simply saying that they didn't, and thus they did have to "open" it, or rather keep it "open".

I would argue they didn't have to "open" it at all, they could have just built up from scratch.

However they chose to do it in the open, side benefit they also got to use a ton of preexisting code.

Thank you, this type of info is pretty much exactly what I hoped to learn :D