So as I understand it, Google’s using it’s monopoly market position to force web
“standards” unilaterally (without an independent/conglomerate web specification
standards where Google is only one of many voices) that will disadvantage its
competitors and force people to leave its competitors. I’m not a lawyer, and I’m
a fledgling tech guy, but this sounds like abuse of a monopoly. Google which
serves 75% of the world’s ads and has 75% of the browser market share seems to
want to use its market power to annihilate people’s privacy and control over
their web experience. So we can file a complaint with FTC led by Lina Khan who
has been the biggest warrior against abuse by big tech in the US.
https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/report-antitrust-violation
[https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/report-antitrust-violation] We can also file a
complaint with the DOJ: https://www.justice.gov/atr/citizen-complaint-center
[https://www.justice.gov/atr/citizen-complaint-center] And there have to be EU,
UK, Indian, Chinese, and Japanese organizations that we can file antitrust
complaints to.
Can the lawyers and web technology experts of Lemmy or our friends at the EFF or Louis Rossmann himself help organize the crafting of antitrust complaints to the FTC, DOJ, and the European Commission? If so, and we get these complaints crafted, then we can share them with the community so that we can all file them with these regulators. We can organize our course of action and coordinate the action itself here for example.
