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> ...it conflates political/market objections to AMP (i.e. abuse of monopoly power)... It never occurred to me that AMP is an initialism for "Abuse of Monopoly

• BiteCode_dev 2y ago
  It's "accelerated mobile pages" but I love the abuse version.
  • marcellus23 2y ago
    Well yes, obviously Google didn't actually name it for Abuse of Monopoly Power.
    • ceejayoz 2y ago
      Not publicly, at least. They've put some seriously dumb admissions in writing before. https://www.techemails.com/p/sergey-brin-irate-call-from-steve-jobs https://www.techemails.com/p/sergey-brin-irate-call-from-ste...
      • Lammy 2y ago
        They learned from this and now just have periodic arbitrary layoffs to depress salaries and keep the workers scared and in line in a deniable way instead of in an explicit way.