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KEY POINTS
- The Department of Justice late Tuesday indicated that it was considering a possible breakup of Google as an antitrust remedy.
- The DOJ said it was “considering behavioral and structural remedies that would prevent Google from using products such as Chrome, Play, and Android to advantage Google search.”
- The judge has yet to decide on the remedies, and Google will likely appeal, drawing out the process potentially for years.
Break them away from Y O U T U B E
5 years from now, things will go full circle and YouTube will be Channel 487 on Comcast cable as “YT” but it will be a documentary channel on how to cane rocking chairs.
People aren’t going to like this comment, but YouTube is pretty much guaranteed to get worse if it’s spun out as an independent company. The main reason it can survive is because of Google’s money. Video streaming at YouTube’s scale is extremely expensive and there’s only a few companies that could really afford to do it.
Take chromium from them . That solves a few issues.
Ah hell you’re right. Nothing would survive with the scope that YouTube has