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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What law are they breaking? Not trying to defend Google or anything, just curious what law is blatantly being broken here because I don't know of one

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's an anti competition law, they cannot penalize you for using a competitor service. This would be like getting fined by McDonald's because I went to Taco Bell.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Blatantly anticompetitive behavior where you (ab)use your dominance in one sector (i.e. YouTube) to choke out competition in another (i.e. make it slow on competing browsers) is illegal in the US and the EU, at the very least. I don't know the specific laws or acts in play, but that's the sort of thing that triggers antitrust lawsuits

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

see FTC anticompetitive-practices