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HenriVolney
sh.itjust.works

That's the next antitrust trial for Alphabet. I hope Ribera squeezes them to the bone.

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Successful_Try543reply
feddit.org

Let's hope so, yet I don't think this will happen.

The current oversight processes are absolutely useless against these billion-dollar companies. Even the fines against Meta and Apple under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in April 2025 were surprisingly low. Remember, fines can be up to 10% of the company’s total worldwide annual revenue. While fines of €200 million or €500 million, respectively, sound a lot, it could have been in the billions.

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Starya67reply
lemmy.world

The fines go up every time they get fined. Iirc the next fine will be in the billions.

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atro_city
fedia.io

I don't know if they can sue them, but I hope they can get other companies to join. Fighting google in court is a monumental undertaking for a company. But if they can get the EU consumer protection to sue for them, that would be amazing too.

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Successful_Try543reply
feddit.org

They already do, but it takes ages.

The issue is that small companies — like ours — have pretty much no recourse. Legal actions are too expensive, and a complaint to the EU takes too long. Together with about 40 other businesses and organizations, we filed a complaint about similar anti-competitive behavior in 2021. We are now four years in, and nothing has happened. What do you think happens to a company that releases no updates to its app in four years?

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