By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/09/2026They wouldn't even be forced to halt the $20b annual bribe to Apple - the judge fretted that without that $20b annual bribe, Apple wouldn't be able to pay researchers to come up with cool new iPhone features. 1140
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/09/2026Never mind that Apple spends all that money - and more - on stock buybacks, a recently illegal form of stock manipulation: pluralistic.net/2025/09/03/u...pluralistic.netPluralistic: The worst possible antitrust outcome (03 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1181
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/09/2026Then, a year later, *another* federal judge - Leonie Brinkema, who presided over the Google "ad-tech" case - decided that Google's penalty for monopolizing the ad market should also be...*nothing*: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...arstechnica.comUS court rules Google will not have to sell ad exchange after losing antitrust caseThe DOJ proved to the court that Google acted illegally, but it won't get the big win it wanted. 1151
