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
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/09/2026Because the hundreds of billions that have been moved from publishers and advertisers to Google and Facebook are hundreds of billions of dollars that are no longer paying for news and entertainment production. 2144
