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xp84yesterday at 11:38 PM1 replyview on HN

The money is nbd, but it's much more important to Google (same as it would be for any of the other tech giants) to keep a certain streak going - 42 years now and counting since the government forced a large or important company to do anything even resembling breaking up. A loss here would serve as precedent (either legally, or at minimum in people's emotions) that you CAN force a divestiture. If Google can be forced to divest this business, why not Chrome, YouTube, or Android? Why can't Apple be forced to divest the App Store business, or Amazon be forced to divest AWS?


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dylan604today at 1:23 AM

Microsoft got pretty close to getting broken up in 2000, but settled in time to avoid the split

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