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US Court Rules Google a Monopoly in 'Biggest Antitrust Case of the 21st Century'. (www.commondreams.org)
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Voice Of America: Google loses massive antitrust case over its search dominance.

The Conversation: A US Court has ruled Google is an illegal monopoly โ€“ and the internet might never be the same.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Palo Alto's got the right idea - the city runs the electricity, gas, water, sewer, and they also have a city-owned fiber internet provider for businesses (which they want to eventually roll out for residential use too). Services are cheaper than other cities where they contract these out to third-party companies, since they're running them to benefit residents, not to make money.

They do contract out some things (garbage/recycling/compost is contracted to GreenWaste) but not many.