DOJ Sues Google

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The fix was in.

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The remedy phase for the Ad Tech case starts today:

After getting off the hook in the search case, for reasons we shall never know but you can guess, we can only hope it doesn’t happen again. This one goes to the heart of their surveillance business model, so :crossed_fingers:. The future of the US and world economy depends on the outcome of this case. If they get off with this one, what is there to stop them, and the other big platforms, continuing to fcuk up our world… ?

from the Justice Department’s opening presentation. Google was found liable for illegally monopolizing the “sell” side and the ad exchange, but not the “buy” side. image
from the Justice Department’s opening presentation. Google was found liable for illegally monopolizing the “sell” side and the ad exchange, but not the “buy” side. image1200×675 133 KB

As Matt Stoller puts it:

  • "Why does such a trial matter? The answer is that it is in these trials that we have the debate over what it would mean to live in a free society. Google is an entity that has orchestrated large-scale arbitrary coercion in America, contra the rule of law. So whether we prohibit that behavior, or allow it, is whether we allow oligarchy. And the anti-partisan nature of the Google trial shows that much of the left-right divide obscures rather than illuminates the moral questions at play. "
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