How Much Must Google Shed?
The U.S. Department of Justice wants to force Google to sell off Chrome — its browser — and ban Google from starting up a new browser for a period of five years. This is on account of Google’s monopolistic practices and abuses of power.
Google’s actions have allegedly led to the shutdown of 90% of blogs, decimating traffic and revenue for content creators through its monopoly power. Google is accused of shadow banning content creators, restricting their traffic and visibility to maintain market dominance.
The proposal suggests allowing content creators to opt out of Google using their work to train its large language model AI. Google may be required to halt anti-competitive payments to distributors like Apple and be prohibited from acquiring interests in search rivals.Let’s hope the incoming Trump administration also forces Google to split off YouTube. Here’s more from Clownfish TV.
