Leah Nylen
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You have to remember that this case is not just the Justice Department. It is also 48 states. And that includes a lot of Republican attorneys general. So there have been sort of Republican side input into this entire process, both the lawsuit and now the remedy phase. If they want to make some changes to the remedy, they can in March before we go into the trial.
But they've made a pretty coherent argument in the papers so far for why they think Chrome needs to be sold, for why they think the various things that they're proposing, like Google being required to turn over some of its data to other search engines, needs to happen.
But they've made a pretty coherent argument in the papers so far for why they think Chrome needs to be sold, for why they think the various things that they're proposing, like Google being required to turn over some of its data to other search engines, needs to happen.
But they've made a pretty coherent argument in the papers so far for why they think Chrome needs to be sold, for why they think the various things that they're proposing, like Google being required to turn over some of its data to other search engines, needs to happen.
So if they don't want the judge to move forward with what has already been proposed, they're going to need a pretty convincing legal argument for why what the Biden folks said is wrong.
So if they don't want the judge to move forward with what has already been proposed, they're going to need a pretty convincing legal argument for why what the Biden folks said is wrong.
So if they don't want the judge to move forward with what has already been proposed, they're going to need a pretty convincing legal argument for why what the Biden folks said is wrong.
In this situation, we have Judge Mehta, who's going to be making the decision. He is a little bit more, we'll say, sort of like conservative. He's very careful. So, I mean, it's entirely possible that he's not going to, you know, agree to a current breakup or some of the bigger asks of the Biden team. But I don't really think that the Trump administration wants to water this down. You know, like,
In this situation, we have Judge Mehta, who's going to be making the decision. He is a little bit more, we'll say, sort of like conservative. He's very careful. So, I mean, it's entirely possible that he's not going to, you know, agree to a current breakup or some of the bigger asks of the Biden team. But I don't really think that the Trump administration wants to water this down. You know, like,
In this situation, we have Judge Mehta, who's going to be making the decision. He is a little bit more, we'll say, sort of like conservative. He's very careful. So, I mean, it's entirely possible that he's not going to, you know, agree to a current breakup or some of the bigger asks of the Biden team. But I don't really think that the Trump administration wants to water this down. You know, like,
They have long had problems with Google. It's sort of a rallying cry among, you know, conservatives that the big tech companies need to be broken up. So I think if they were to come up with like a Microsoft like settlement, it would certainly like be a disappointment to their base.
They have long had problems with Google. It's sort of a rallying cry among, you know, conservatives that the big tech companies need to be broken up. So I think if they were to come up with like a Microsoft like settlement, it would certainly like be a disappointment to their base.
They have long had problems with Google. It's sort of a rallying cry among, you know, conservatives that the big tech companies need to be broken up. So I think if they were to come up with like a Microsoft like settlement, it would certainly like be a disappointment to their base.
Yes, definitely. I mean, the judge in that case is a firecracker. She's pretty great, actually. She has said she's going to rule by the end of the year. And I believe it. She has moved everything along very quickly. There are people who are saying that, you know, if she finds that Google has a monopoly in those markets, she could try and move for a remedy decision by next summer.
Yes, definitely. I mean, the judge in that case is a firecracker. She's pretty great, actually. She has said she's going to rule by the end of the year. And I believe it. She has moved everything along very quickly. There are people who are saying that, you know, if she finds that Google has a monopoly in those markets, she could try and move for a remedy decision by next summer.
Yes, definitely. I mean, the judge in that case is a firecracker. She's pretty great, actually. She has said she's going to rule by the end of the year. And I believe it. She has moved everything along very quickly. There are people who are saying that, you know, if she finds that Google has a monopoly in those markets, she could try and move for a remedy decision by next summer.
So we could have both of these sort of wrapped up, you know, by next summer, ready for their appeals.
So we could have both of these sort of wrapped up, you know, by next summer, ready for their appeals.
So we could have both of these sort of wrapped up, you know, by next summer, ready for their appeals.
That is the ideal that any trust enforcers talk about. If there were all of these other social media platforms, if we really did have like 10,000 of them, it wouldn't matter if the government was trying to go around and get somebody banned off of Facebook. one or censor a particular view about viruses because those people could just go to the other one.