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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/09/2026

Never 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...

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Pluralistic: The worst possible antitrust outcome (03 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/09/2026

Then, 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...

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US court rules Google will not have to sell ad exchange after losing antitrust case

The DOJ proved to the court that Google acted illegally, but it won't get the big win it wanted.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/09/2026

Oh, maybe not *exactly* nothing. We don't actually know the full extent of Judge Brinkema's "remedy," because it's sealed for two weeks.

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