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rubitxxx2on US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]

> Ooh, can we?

If the dream of a Star Trek future reputation-based government run by AI which secretly manipulates the vote comes true, yes we can!

Either that or we could organize competitors to lobby the US or EU for more lawsuits in exchange for billions in kickbacks! (Not implying anything by this.)

rubitxxx2on US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]

Assuming the simplified diagram of Google’s architecture, sure, it looks like you’re just splitting off a well-isolated part, but it would be a significant hardship to do it in reality.

Why not also require Apple to split off only the phone and messaging part of its iPhone, Meta to split off only the user feed data, and for the U.S. federal government to run only out of Washington D.C.?

This isn’t the breakup of AT&T in the early 1980s where you could say all the equipment and wiring just now belongs to separate entities. (It wasn’t that simple, but it wasn’t like trying to extract an organ.)

I think people have to understand that and know that what they’re doing is killing Google, and it was already on its way into mind-numbed enterprise territory.