In light of articles all over Lemmy about Google pushing ManifestV3 onto Chrome and the majority of web users, isn't that an antitrust violation?

www.ftc.gov Report an Antitrust Violation

If you have a question or comment about an antitrust issue, submit it to the Bureau of Competition by one of the methods below.

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

We can also file a complaint with the DOJ:

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.

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hah, this person thinks antitrust legislation is actually enforced
- the EU actually does quite often, not that Americans would notice much of it. EU courts are the reason why Microsoft need to offer multiple browsers on install and why the N category of windows existed
  
  They also where the first to approve the Microsoft/Activision merge tho so it's better than in America but often very hit or miss too! :/
  
  Not exactly the same situation, Sony is the market leader here and the FTC was only able to show that the merger may harm Sony, not customers. The EU got many remedies for the Activision and Microsoft merger that doesn't exist today like Activision games on more platforms which will be beneficial to consumers.
  
  True, that was a bad example but it really is more hit or miss than proper enforcment a lot of the time.
  
  Microsoft/Activision merger doesn't pose any threat. Sony is the market leader in console gaming and Steam is the leading platform in PC gaming. Activision is also on its last breath and if it wasn't for Microsoft, someone else would buy it a couple of years later. There are literally no reasons to block this merger.
  The only reason US is against is because sweet Sony money.
  
  True, that was a bad example but it really is more hit or miss than proper enforcment a lot of the time.
- antitrust legislation is actually enforced
  One could look at DoJ v Microsoft and how little was done despite it being SO bad that the DoJ actually sued the first technical company since AT&T for antitrust.
  But that's more a factor of inspections and investigations, and in a small-government setup there's just no people for that. Sorry.

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