By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/09/2026The *most* absurd part of this farce is the lawyers who defend it on behalf of companies like Google. If a Google lawyer ever showed up to to defend the company in a trial where the judge was working for the plaintiff, they would scream blue murder and refuse to proceed until the judge was removed. 180
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/09/2026But when *Google* operates a business where it presides over transactions where it has nothing *but* conflicts of interest, these same lawyers argue that Google would *never* cheat a seller *or* a buyer. 180
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/09/2026The fucking *absurdity* of this arrangement is so obvious that a bill to force a halt to it was co-sponsored...*by Elizabeth Warren and Ted Cruz*: gizmodo.com/google-faceb... Why would Warren and Cruz care about this?gizmodo.comTed Cruz, Elizabeth Warren, and More Unlikely Senators Propose Bill to Break Up Google and MetaThe dramatically named AMERICA Act would prohibit big companies from owning multiple parts of the digital ad ecosystem. 1180