Why Google Is Being Sued by the Justice Department | WSJ

The Justice Department is filing an antitrust lawsuit against Google. Here’s how the tech giant ended up in the crosshairs of federal regulators. WSJ’s Jason Bellini reports. Photo: Getty Images

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[SuperSeltzer]

Sue COMCAST instead. They inflict direct damages to consumers in towns where they are the only Internet provider, where they charge $120 for famously unreliable connections with terrible customer service.

[andromeda]

And here we are, all of us, commenting about this on a google platform.

[allenpradhan]

Google then: Microsoft is unfair and a monopoly
Microsoft now: google is a monopoly 😂

[Saxonguitar]

4:25. The guy in the back is a very wealthy business tycoon indeed.

[topweird]

If a service is free, then you are the product.

[ryanexx]

It’s not a challenge. Nothing will come from this unfortunately

[CruzMobileDetail]

4:24 omg I just noticed the monopoly man on background lol 😂

[Mirsab]

Freedom in America goes down the drain when money is at stake.

[vectorhacker-r]

Lobbying is going to be the end goal, look for it. Google's lobbying efforts are going to be a whole lot larger, and that's the idea.

[buysellholdfinance]

SEO is basically Google-Optimization. There needs to be competition, either forced or unforced.

[emeraldvirgo]

anyone remember when microsoft was sued for bundling their products? It's like suing McDonalds for selling burgers, fries, and coke together when the convenience store next door only has coke.

[sky]

When 90% of all searches are Google and they take 40% of all ad revenue, this causes a monopoly. You can figure out the rest.

[marylamb]

This is just like the Microsoft anti-competition methods used in the 1990s.

[stGruhn]

While I agree that it is difficult to show direct harm to consumers, the larger problem is the censorship of ideas\content prioritization that big tech does. They decide what constitutes correct speech based on vague user guidelines then permit subsidiaries to take down content that doesn't support that moderator's political agendas. This is what makes the concept of hate speech so insidious: censorship of detestable speech/art will always enable special interest to start to dictate what is acceptable.

And by making their algorithm seek content that a viewer wants to see, they are making it far easier to stay within political/philosophic thought bubbles than at anytime in history. And then you have the issue of when searching for something, Google determines what is ultimately shown in the top list. This is a form of editorializing, as they decide the rank and relevance of the content to be shown. And since this is intrinsic to search, this one is particularly difficult to address.

The power this one company has on the whole world's access to information gives them the ability to steer everyone to their perspective by only showing content that supports their end. It is the same problem when granting the power of education to a single entity. Control access to education/information and you, in large part, control thought.

There is little wonder why they so willingly supported China's great firewall...

[LegendOfTheFLame]

You know it's a problem when the government actually starts to question your methods

[issiewizzie]

when we need cash we turn to sue google . The EU fined Google twice

[johnpijano]

Why does this feel familiar in the 90s and 20s?








Oh right, monopolies and trust.

[onekerri]

@4:33 I'm really liking the Monopoly Man in the background.

[vAm]

Why only now? Google probably has been doing for decades. Why just now?

[eliizql]

I'm googling Google antitrust lawsuit!😂😂 Wonder what will come up