Justice Department calls for sanctions against Google in landmark antitrust case

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Source: NPR

October 9, 2024 12:38 AM ET


The Department of Justice is proposing a series of sanctions against Google to ensure that it can no longer monopolize the search engine market. In a filing late Tuesday night, the government laid out its framework for reining in the tech giant.

Proposals include possibly putting an end to exclusive agreements Google has with companies like Apple and Samsung, and prohibiting certain kinds of data tracking. The government wrote that it’s considering “behavioral and structural” remedies that would ensure Google couldn’t use its Chrome browser or Android phone in a way that advantages its search engine, but didn’t outline what the structural remedies would be.

“Google’s anticompetitive conduct resulted in interlocking and pernicious harms,” reads the filing. The markets Google controls, it continues, “are indispensable to the lives of all Americans, whether as individuals or as business owners, and the importance of effectively unfettering these markets and restoring competition cannot be overstated.”

The 32-page filing follows federal Judge Amit Mehta’s ruling in August that Google had acted illegally to maintain a monopoly on the search engine market. That ruling was the culmination of an antitrust lawsuit that the Justice Department filed against Google in 2020, which was joined by 38 state attorneys general.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2024/10/09/nx-s1-5146006/justice-department-sanctions-google-search-engine-lawsuit

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Link to DOJ FILING (PDF viewer) - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25197004-6ad1f361-4e42-4390-9125-80c21515a4cc

Link to DOJ FILING (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25197004/6ad1f361-4e42-4390-9125-80c21515a4cc.pdf

[Tetrachloride]

1. the DOJ is taking comparative ly baby steps

the consumers and progressive state governments have to do quite a bit

such as demanding better search results from competing search engines

[cstanleytech]

2. How the #_#@$$ do you actually do you accomplish that with a search engine? I mean honestly?

Sure, Google is large and all but there are already actually a number of other search engines already.
About the only thing I might see is breaking off YouTube from them but otherwise it's nonsense especially when there are bigger fish to fry such as the varies meat packing plants that have consolidated over the last few years which have decreased competition and helped drive prices up.

[msfiddlestix]

3. Right? I feel like the DOJ wastes money and resources on low hanging fruit in just about every category of corporate

other criminal behavior. I swear, argggh.