Alphabet’s Google is being sued in Britain for potential damages of up to £5 billion in a class action alleging the company abused its dominant market position in the online search industry.
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So I guess we’re gonna have a far right government next election then when this is inevitably dragged out until the rich can buy the election by drumming up enough hate to make the average Brit spit in their tea if they thought it’d make immigrants/transes/youth sad.
I’m sorry to soapbox about politics in a tech thread, but this charade of “law and order” and endless debate about the actual merits of the actual lawsuit under the actual law are so tiresome when these corpos just bypass this shit anyway.
If Labour are smart, they’ll opt to abolish FPTP before the next election. This 40% majority bullshit is enough.
Labour aren’t smart though. They believe FPTP gives them an advantage and thus we’re destined to misery under the conservatives as soon as the party gathers together the resources to bribe farage into disbanding reform
Theyre gonna have to outbid Musk…
That’ll just give more seats to reform.
That’s honestly fine. Everybody deserves fair representation.
If we’d had PR a decade ago and the disenfranchised had had a voice in parliament then perhaps we never would have been dragged out of the EU.
they’re going to get them anyway, look how close the AfD came in the last election in Germany.
At least with coalition powers, the other parties (Greens, Lib Dems, Tories…, MRL) can make a coalition with Labour and cut Reform out of the running. (Assuming Labour get some kind of majority…)
You don’t need PR for that necessarily but yeah I see your point.
Surely they will be found guilty with all due haste, and will not be able to drag this out for years.
I love how every country is broke, in turmoil, people are starving, no homes, and it’s like $8b fine. $20b fine! $5b fine! Like who is paying where is this going and who comes up with these figures that just end up being a number on a screen.
Are the “thousands of companies” hiding their identity?
