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DOJ antitrust chief is ‘overjoyed’ after Google monopoly verdict

The antitrust chief of the Justice Department says he’s “overjoyed” a federal judge declared Google a monopolist.

So I wanted to know what Jonathan thought of the ruling, what it means for the law, which appears to be coming back to a more practical and intuitive version of antitrust from the extremely technical and economic approach that’s been used since the ’80s. We are in a world, for example, where AI is among the most significant inflection points the technology industry has confronted in a very long time, and that has the opportunity to usher in new business models and new competitive threats. We’re never going to see the next generation of smaller startups and disruptive players unless we have an appropriate degree of antitrust enforcement that keeps them free to compete on the merits of their innovations rather than being elbowed out through restrictive contracts and other provisions.

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