50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust investigation of Google
While this is a far shorter list than Luther&#x27;s 95 theses, I will post this here while I run to get popcorn to see just how Google gets out of this.<p>Sample arguably anti-competitive actions Google has taken:<p>1. Turning off XMPP federation in Google Talk, moving from an open standard to an archipelago of walled gardens (Hangouts, Allo, GChat, Hangouts again, Messages&#x2F;RCS that the carriers are gonna give up to Google to host(!?))<p>2. Killing Windows Phone by not allowing any Google-based apps on the platform  (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;7&#x2F;14&#x2F;15970082&#x2F;google-killed-windows-phone-not-iphone" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;7&#x2F;14&#x2F;15970082&#x2F;google-killed-wi...</a>)<p>3. Posting map&#x2F;weather&#x2F;review content straight to SERPs starving MapQuest&#x2F;WU&#x2F;Yelp et al from getting clicks<p>4. Anyone not browsing on Chrome gets an upsell to install Chrome (MS got roasted for this with Windows Media &amp; best used on IE)<p>5. Degrading services on competing browsers&#x2F;platforms via things like U2F in Firefox, slow&#x2F;wontfix polyfills (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.computerworld.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;3389882&#x2F;former-mozilla-exec-alleges-google-torpedoed-firefox-with-oops-excuses.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.computerworld.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;3389882&#x2F;former-mozilla...</a>)<p>There are probably more entries to list, and these are complex issues being reduced to a sentence or two, but I&#x27;ve tried to not post things that are not immediately anti-competitive even if I don&#x27;t like &#x27;em (Google+ forced integration which resulted in me still not commenting on YouTube all these years later, RIP Google Reader)