They'll scream and cry about it, for sure. They'll get the Lefties all riled up telling em, "Trump is coming to censor Google!" All I can hope is that enough people know what's actually going on; and know that breaking up these tech giants will be a good thing universally.
I mean technically maybe he could trigger the San Andreas fault, and right after that is done, send in a category 5 hurricane, and maybe it wipes out enough of the snowflakes that the company can't rebuild.
Exactly. Just about the only way it could actually work is to give a command to delete all of the data and MILSPEC wipe it from the drives. Even that probably will fail because
I almost guarantee no one person has permissions to do that
if they’re even halfway competent, there’s offline backups that can just restore everything back to normal
Only something like “the DOJ has ordered Alphabet to be broken up under anti-trust laws. Their (and Google’s) board will personally report to Guantanamo and have all assets frozen if they do not cooperate” would make them listen
Android Phones
Gmail
Google Search
Google Maps
Google Satellites
Google Docs Suite
Google Drive
Youtube
Google Cloud Storage
Google Calendar
Zoom plugin for Google
Chrome Browser
Google Apps Scripts Suite
Google Data Studio
That's just a list of all the Google shit and services we have to use just for work... and I'm sure I'm missing some l, like their physical infastructure that supports it all.
I want to believe dammit..... God is supposed to be the 'cloud'... maybe the plague of locusts can be some stealthy computer virus which stays dormant in all the servers and all the backups until it is activated and all the data turns back into dust.
The crack in Goolag's armor is the online advertising, and it looks like that is what the DOJ is targeting.
Alphabet was an obvious antitrust target. Through YouTube, Google search, Google Maps and a suite of online advertising products, consumers interact with the company nearly every time they search for information, watch a video, hail a ride, order delivery in an app or see an ad online.
Not just YouTube. And, it wouldn't mean that AdSense would go away, just that it would be split off into a separate entity. A very wealthy one.
The point is, this would break their tracking abilities. So the nonsense of watching something on YouTube, and going to Amazon and them 'recommending" a related product would end.
Big Ad is throwing a collective tantrum today behind closed doors. I'm hearing it personally.
But, Alphabet sells all kinds of data, so they won't go out of business, and they'll just find other ways to do what they're doing now. But we'll have a moment's respite from the aggressive tracking they do.
There are a ton of other companies/individuals who would pounce on the opportunity to lap up Youtube's market share, and the competition would be extremely consumer friendly, like it was on the early internet.
That's a GOOD thing. The individual companies will shrink and have to fix their business models in order to survive, plus all kinds of competition will finally be able to enter the internet tech space.
I get almost all my entertainment from youtube but you know what, ill live. Google and the rest of silicon valley are absolute cancers on this country.
This is an understatement. AdWords is Google's ONLY profitable department. They are in the red in every other aspect of their company. Everything else they run at a loss for the same reasons newspapers run at a loss. Because the true value lies in manipulating the user base and controlling/censoring discourse.
Correct. This is kicking their strongest, if not only, leg out from under them. Forcing the money holes to separate into independent companies means they will shrink BIG-LEAGUE. MAGA tech entrepreneurs, your time has come.
Yup, the advertising services should be decoupled from their other services and spun into an independent company. Same goes for anyone else who does the same, aka facebook for example.
They can't move to China. Foreigners cannot own companies in China, they'd have to partner with an existing Chinese company to set up shop there, and they already tried that, and got burned, hard.
Call me jaded but I don’t think anything will happen.
I tend to agree. Google (Alphabet) is so massive and has their claws into everything, I don't think God himself could stop them.
Google is far larger than that phone company
And that phone company has reacquired basically all their assets, as well as additional ones, and is bigger than they ever were.
i want to see it all scattered into the wind.
and also controls public thought and 95% of everyones information
They also broke up standard oil, everyone thought that company was untouchable.
They'll scream and cry about it, for sure. They'll get the Lefties all riled up telling em, "Trump is coming to censor Google!" All I can hope is that enough people know what's actually going on; and know that breaking up these tech giants will be a good thing universally.
BREAK THEM ALL UP. NOW!
I mean technically maybe he could trigger the San Andreas fault, and right after that is done, send in a category 5 hurricane, and maybe it wipes out enough of the snowflakes that the company can't rebuild.
Exactly. Just about the only way it could actually work is to give a command to delete all of the data and MILSPEC wipe it from the drives. Even that probably will fail because
I almost guarantee no one person has permissions to do that
if they’re even halfway competent, there’s offline backups that can just restore everything back to normal
Only something like “the DOJ has ordered Alphabet to be broken up under anti-trust laws. Their (and Google’s) board will personally report to Guantanamo and have all assets frozen if they do not cooperate” would make them listen
Most of "the company" that matters is algorithms in the cloud.
They own soooo much shit.
Android Phones Gmail Google Search Google Maps Google Satellites Google Docs Suite Google Drive Youtube Google Cloud Storage Google Calendar Zoom plugin for Google Chrome Browser Google Apps Scripts Suite Google Data Studio
That's just a list of all the Google shit and services we have to use just for work... and I'm sure I'm missing some l, like their physical infastructure that supports it all.
right on.
I want to believe dammit..... God is supposed to be the 'cloud'... maybe the plague of locusts can be some stealthy computer virus which stays dormant in all the servers and all the backups until it is activated and all the data turns back into dust.
A VIEW TO A KILL
Yeah, God can stop them.
He already did, in fact. All that the agents of evil do now is the equivalent of throwing a childish tantrum and calling it "victory".
A few spec op teams could
Luckily Trump is no god
The crack in Goolag's armor is the online advertising, and it looks like that is what the DOJ is targeting.
Their ad business is also their cash cow so this will hit them hard. They have a lot of other businesses that just have massive losses.
Not just YouTube. And, it wouldn't mean that AdSense would go away, just that it would be split off into a separate entity. A very wealthy one.
The point is, this would break their tracking abilities. So the nonsense of watching something on YouTube, and going to Amazon and them 'recommending" a related product would end.
Big Ad is throwing a collective tantrum today behind closed doors. I'm hearing it personally.
But, Alphabet sells all kinds of data, so they won't go out of business, and they'll just find other ways to do what they're doing now. But we'll have a moment's respite from the aggressive tracking they do.
There are a ton of other companies/individuals who would pounce on the opportunity to lap up Youtube's market share, and the competition would be extremely consumer friendly, like it was on the early internet.
That's a GOOD thing. The individual companies will shrink and have to fix their business models in order to survive, plus all kinds of competition will finally be able to enter the internet tech space.
I get almost all my entertainment from youtube but you know what, ill live. Google and the rest of silicon valley are absolute cancers on this country.
I’m fine with that. We need competition. That market is in late stage capitalism. Incredibly unhealthy.
This is an understatement. AdWords is Google's ONLY profitable department. They are in the red in every other aspect of their company. Everything else they run at a loss for the same reasons newspapers run at a loss. Because the true value lies in manipulating the user base and controlling/censoring discourse.
Correct. This is kicking their strongest, if not only, leg out from under them. Forcing the money holes to separate into independent companies means they will shrink BIG-LEAGUE. MAGA tech entrepreneurs, your time has come.
Yup, the advertising services should be decoupled from their other services and spun into an independent company. Same goes for anyone else who does the same, aka facebook for example.
They'll just move to China.
Good. Then we can ban or force the sale of assets, just like tik tok.
They can't move to China. Foreigners cannot own companies in China, they'd have to partner with an existing Chinese company to set up shop there, and they already tried that, and got burned, hard.
Never trust the Chinese (Government not the people [For the most part]).
DOJ:
Happening
"Supporter":
nothing ever happens
This is getting a little tiresome.
Sure something will happen, google will get a harshly toned letter in the mail