• skulblaka
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    19 hours ago

    Musk will be champing at the bit to own a controlling share of both of these. It disgusts me to agree with them but they’re right. This is the single worst possible time to try and push this through.

    • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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      19 hours ago

      This is the single worst possible time to try and push this through.

      Which is why it’s happening now, I agree.

      But we, the non-billionaires are still better off after any monopoly split. It’s hard to express how incredibly bad powerful monopolies are. The fact that another billionaire will be the buyer sucks, but it’s no reason to back away from forcing the legally required split.

      • seejur@lemmy.world
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        8 hours ago

        Chrome is a monopoly by itself already. And forcing Google to sell, only to have Microsoft buying it is actually worse then the current situation.