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The Comprehensive Plan to Weaken Google’s Power

The Justice Department proposed breakups, licensing arrangements, and other methods as a remedy for Google’s violation of the antitrust laws. Will Donald Trump’s team go along with it?

Last week, the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division proposed a historic breakup of Google’s search monopoly, in order to restore competition and resolve conduct that earlier this year a D.C. district court judge ruled violated the Sherman Act. The former Florida state attorney general has a weak record on holding fraudulent business actors accountable, and most recently worked for a lobbying firm that represented Big Tech giants including Google, Amazon, and Uber. THE DOJ’S OVERARCHING STRATEGY is that enforcers are seeking not just to rectify past illegal conduct by Google, but also restructure the company in order to level the playing field and ensure future competition.

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