The crowd. Whatever it may be.
No one is forced or compelled to use Google. You have other options.
When ATT was broken up, there weren’t other options. You either hat ATT or you probably didn’t have a phone.
From Wiki:
AT&T was, at the time, the sole provider of telephone service throughout most of the United States. Furthermore, most telephonic equipment in the United States was produced by its subsidiary, Western Electric. This vertical integration led AT&T to have almost total control over communication technology in the country, which led to the antitrust case, United States v. AT&T . The plaintiff in the court complaint asked the court to order AT&T to divest ownership of Western Electric.[3]
There was literally not another choice. You used their service, with equipment provided by their subsidiaries, using their lines.
This is not a rabbit hole you want to dive down…it’s not going to go how you think.
So you think the hardware manufacturer controls what you see. Interesting. Telling.
Again, what legal basis would the FCC use to break up Google… Thousands of companies have operations in China and comply with Chinese law, is that your basis for breaking them up?
What you’re advocating is very dangerous.
Do liberals count the help from Google as campaign contributions?
Why not. China and other anti-America groups can far easier manipulate information from a monopoly like Google than a dozen other search engines of equal size.
Google has bought out its competition. This also shows how feeble US law is with a global entity like Google.
Do conservatives count the help from right-wing talk radio as campaign contributions?
What search engines has Google bought?
No more dangerous than the FCC regulating broadcast content.
Google is playing by its own global rules, not US communication standards.
It has been interesting observing the Republican party move from the conservative opinion of letting the free market handle perceived issues as they arise, to wanting the nanny state to handle more and more perceived problems.
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Why don’t you look that up yourself?
I used Alta Vista for years until Google killed it
So don’t use Google. That’s the entire ■■■■■■■ point. It’s like choosing mom and pop over Wal-Mart. No one can force you to make that decision but you. You’re not required to shop at Wal-Mart, just like you’re not required to use Google. So don’t.
Using ATT wasn’t a choice for most people-either you used them, and their equipment, or you didn’t have a phone.
Oh, so there’s not a single other search engine to use. You may want to let Microsoft and Firefox know they no longer exist.
They are not search engines.
Bing and Yahoo are the last significant players and they are contacting rapidly.
Alta Vista became part of Yahoo… It lost market share to Google because it was not near the quality of Google and did not monetize as well as Google…
Yeah… don’t put words in my mouth please.
Corporations are people my friend.
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Even though I could see a world where Alphabet was broken up into various companies and there can be a reasonable discussion about the pros and cons of that … the FCC regulates public airwaves.
Regulating internet content is a very dangerous issue to back.
The FCC has a legal basis for regulating over the air broadcast content… They have no legal basis for regulating internet content…
