• Emily (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    Oh yeah for sure. Google, extremely large companies, and government apps essentially have different streams and access to support than the rest of us mere mortals. They all receive scrutiny, but they have much more ability to access real support and may have slightly altered guidelines.

    • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I get what you’re saying, but giving yourself a fast lane in other business areas is an explicit choice to be anticompetitive. That decision on its own is inherently malicious. It doesn’t allow you to then say the consequences of that decision are neutral because you didn’t single out this specific competitor to block (or at least there’s no evidence you did). This is frankly a slam dunk case in the EU that will result in heavy fines for Google.