{"id":92511,"date":"2024-08-05T16:50:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T20:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=92511"},"modified":"2024-08-05T16:52:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T20:52:06","slug":"google-is-an-illegal-monopoly-federal-court-rules-dou-de-vynck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2024\/08\/05\/google-is-an-illegal-monopoly-federal-court-rules-dou-de-vynck\/","title":{"rendered":"Google is an illegal monopoly, federal court rules [Dou\u00a0&#038; De Vynck]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2024\/08\/05\/doj-google-monopoly-trial-judgment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Google is an illegal monopoly, federal court rules<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from washingtonpost.com by Eva Dou\u00a0and\u00a0 Gerrit De Vynck<br \/>\n<em>Judgment delivers a victory to the Justice Department as it takes on a string of federal antitrust lawsuits against Big Tech.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">A federal court has found that Google illegally abused its market power to quash competition in internet search, handing the Justice Department a landmark victory against Big Tech.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cGoogle is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,\u201d Judge Amit P. Mehta wrote in his judgment on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Mehta wrote that Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc., has violated Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act by maintaining its monopoly in two product markets in the United States \u2014 general search service and general text advertising \u2014 through exclusive distribution agreements with customer companies.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>The case has been closely watched in antitrust law circles as the first of a string of cases federal prosecutors have launched against high-tech giants. Antitrust enforcers argue that Big Tech has gotten too powerful and doesn\u2019t serve the public interest. Lawsuits have also been filed against Amazon, Meta and Apple.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is an illegal monopoly, federal court rules &#8212; from washingtonpost.com by Eva Dou\u00a0and\u00a0 Gerrit De Vynck Judgment delivers a victory to the Justice Department as it takes on a string of federal antitrust lawsuits against Big Tech. A federal court has found that Google illegally abused its market power to quash competition in internet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[556,139,816,63,285,321,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-apple","category-facebook","category-google","category-legislation-legislatures","category-united-states","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92511"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92515,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92511\/revisions\/92515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}