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Microsoft faced antitrust legislation for bundling a free browser with their OS, but Google and Apple are allowed to dictate content moderation policies for app
by ALittleLight 4y ago
Microsoft faced antitrust legislation for bundling a free browser with their OS, but Google and Apple are allowed to dictate content moderation policies for apps on their OS?
This is disgusting.
- superchroma 4y agoMaybe if it was Twitter that was running the Android app store, but it seems to me that this situation is not so clear cut. How is this an anticompetitive action?
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- ALittleLight 4y agoGoogle competes for user's attention and advertising dollars. It seems pretty straightforward to say that prohibiting competitors from operating is an anticompetitive action.
- bandyaboot 4y agoIt’s a tricky situation. I think it’s appropriate for the government to intervene if Google bans a competitor’s app for anti-competitive reasons. But I also think Google should not be forced to facilitate distribution of content on its property that it believes to be harmful simply because that distribution is being done by a competitor.
- superchroma 4y agoI think you would have to demonstrate that they were promoting apps that integrated with Google ad vending over those that don't, then. I'm just trying to visualize the legal argument.
- SV_BubbleTime 4y agoWhen you are Google, I think you should be held to a ”no, you can’t create the world as you see fit” binder. Because at this size “a competitor” isn’t really a thing.
- hotpotamus 4y agoPerhaps another corporate tax cut will show them the error of their ways.
- faeriechangling 4y agoHistorically maybe 3 broadcasters opinions on morality in the US dictated what everybody in the entire country heard for quite a few years.