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by EvanAnderson 434 days ago
> ...it conflates political/market objections to AMP (i.e. abuse of monopoly power)...

It never occurred to me that AMP is an initialism for "Abuse of Monopoly Power". It's deliciously fitting.
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BiteCode_dev 434 days ago
It's "accelerated mobile pages" but I love the abuse version.
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marcellus23 434 days ago
Well yes, obviously Google didn't actually name it for Abuse of Monopoly Power.
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ceejayoz 434 days ago
Not publicly, at least.

They've put some seriously dumb admissions in writing before.

https://www.techemails.com/p/sergey-brin-irate-call-from-ste...

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Lammy 434 days ago
They learned from this and now just have periodic arbitrary layoffs to depress salaries and keep the workers scared and in line in a deniable way instead of in an explicit way.
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