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I'm honestly curious how this would "harm Americans".
It harms wealthy asshole Americans at Google.
Google pretending they have any other nationality other then “the global internet” is cute in a disgusting way.
That statement is technically true.
The billionaire owners are Americans.
I refuse to call any Billionaires Americans. A billionaire in America has far more in common with a billionaire in Ireland or France than with working class Americans. They don't use our schools, drink our water, drive our roads, or rely on our safety nets. They don't take out the trash, do their laundry, wait 6 months for a doctor's appointment, or stress over defunding their retirement to pay for needed medication.
Billionaire involvement in politics should be considered foreign interference. Of course AIPAC is foreign interference too, but apparently that's not a problem either.
Everyone really does need to have that at the forefront of their mind. When the C-suit, wall street, and politicians talk about "Americans" they aren't talking about us schlubs.
The corporations are people too!
Alphabet’s Chief Legal Officer sounds like Donald Trump
I fear this is exactly who they're courting.
The same ruling would ban Google from paying other browsers to make Google the default search engine.
This would kill Firefox and make Chromium the only browser engine that's left.
That's really sad...
How does chrome make money? It uses ads from Google, chrome on it's own is not a business.
Say you buy chrome, you have to options
Ads built into chrome itself (when you're in the settings menu, homepage, reading a PDF, playing the dino game)
Force your own default search engine, or get a company like Google or Bing to pay you for the privilege of being a default search engine.
Neither of these options are better than the status quo