Ok I can’t read the full article so apologies if they push back, but this seems like shareholder-directed hopium, to use the technical term. 1. The Search Ads

Ok I can’t read the full article so apologies if they push back, but this seems like shareholder-directed hopium, to use the technical term. 1. The Search Ads case (trial?) has just entered the “remedy” phase after Google was found liable: https://www.justice.gov/atr/media/1367481/dl https://www.justice.gov/atr/media/1367481/dl 2. The Display Ads trial did just start recently and it’s (IMO) more complex, but still, the government seems to have be pushing quite an aggressive line, with language like “they’re maintaining three separate monopolies”: https://www.justice.gov/atr/case-document/file/1566706/dl https://www.justice.gov/atr/case-document/file/1566706/dl 3. TIL they already lost the Android trial, too! As of August the judge was considering remedies: https://apnews.com/article/google-play-store-android-apps-antitrust-monopoly-240b2493110660684198822c57e22a60 https://apnews.com/article/google-play-store-android-apps-an... 4. On top of all that, Pichai himself was caught absolutely red-handed illegally hiding materials from legal discovery mechanisms, going as far as to ask interlocutors to move sensitive conversations to more ephemeral media. That’s on top of the org-level violations, namely a) setting GoogleChat to 24h auto delete as a sudden unexplained “security precaution”, and b) writing “attorney client privilege” on basically every engineering slide deck and technical memo that might possibly be sensitive, even though there’s no attorneys in sight. It looks like they were found guilty of this in May in one federal court and are being pursued in the other for it, but the punishments haven’t been announced yet. See: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/29/tech/judge-google-deleted-chat-logs-antitrust-case/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/29/tech/judge-google-deleted-cha... 5. Somehow, there’s no active federal case regarding Chrome, which kinda blows my mind. But with Mozilla collapsing and Display Ad changes coming down the pipe, this seems inevitable… here’s a hilarious article from 2008 tho where Microsoft promises to crush Chrome with Internet Explorer https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/google-may-face-antitrust-challenge-on-chrome-917260.html https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/google-may-face-antitrust...