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by pjc50 2002 days ago
What law would it be breaking? What is the likelihood of that law being enforced against a multi billion dollar business?
3 comments

Anticompetitive Tying. Google used the existing ad monopoly to try to gain a news distribution monopoly.

Pretty low.

PURPOSEFULLY interfered with someone else's product by making it slower. Like Pepsi finding a way to dilute Coke's concentration in each bottle.
Looks like fraud to me. The webpages were made slow by Google and the reason given was different than the cause of the slowdown.