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People deserve choice, and choice requires the existence of viable alternatives. Alternatives and competition are good for everyone, but they can only flourish if the playing field is fair. It’s not today, but it’s also not hard to fix if the platform vendors wish to do so.

Amendes aux Pays-Bas contre Apple, nouvelle enquête en Corée du Sud contre Google, communication de griefs à Apple par la Commission européenne, entrée en vigueur annoncée du Digital Markets Act (DMA) : les pratiques anticoncurrentielles sur les magasins d’applications et les paiements en ligne sont dénoncées tous azimuts.

There’s a new Big Tech antitrust bill in town, and this one is especially painful for Google.

A group of lawmakers led by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the Competition and Transparency in Digital Advertising Act on Thursday. This bipartisan and bicameral legislation would forbid any company with more than $20 billion in digital advertising revenue — that’s Google and Meta, basically — from owning multiple parts of the digital advertising chain. Google would have to choose between being a buyer or a seller or running the ad exchange between the two. It currently owns all three parts, and has been dogged by allegations, which it denies, that it uses that power to unfairly manipulate that market to its own advantage.

“This lack of competition in digital advertising means that monopoly rents are being imposed upon every website that is ad-supported and every company — small, medium, or large — that relies on internet advertising to grow its business,” Sen. Lee said in a statement. “It is essentially a tax on thousands of American businesses, and thus a tax on millions of American consumers.”

Je tombe, via divers canaux, sur des informations techniques distinctes concernant Android. Prises séparement, ces informations ont l'air anodines, et accessoirement juste purement techniques. Mais je pense qu'il n'en est rien. Je pense que c'est un plan de Google pour verrouiller progressivement Android et garder un maximum de contrôle dessus.