{"id":32394,"date":"2020-10-20T10:53:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T14:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=7ee81c22022448c3fe6ad5a7fb498f95"},"modified":"2020-10-20T10:53:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T14:53:34","slug":"justice-dept-files-long-awaited-antitrust-suit-against-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=32394","title":{"rendered":"Justice Dept. files long-awaited antitrust suit against Google"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Department of Justice today filed a landmark antitrust suit against Google, alleging that the company behaved anticompetitively and unfairly pushed out rivals in its search businesses.<\/p>\n

A company does not have to be a literal monopoly, with no available competition of any kind, to be in violation of antitrust law. The law is instead primarily concerned with what a company does to attain dominance and what it does with that dominant position once it's at the top. And according to the DOJ's complaint (PDF<\/a>), Google did indeed abuse its outsized market power to tilt the playing field in its favor and keep potential rivals out.<\/p>\n

\"Google is the gateway to the Internet,\" Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen said in a call with reporters. \"It has maintained its power through exclusionary practices that are harmful to competition.\"<\/p><\/div>

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