Federal judge rules against Google in massive antitrust lawsuit

A federal U.S. judge ruled that Google has illegally held a monopoly in two market areas: search and text advertising. NBC News' Brian Cheung explains the background of the case.

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[wjcolclasure]

google, facebook, amazon and a 100 others need to be broken up.

[sarahs]

Google's motto used to be "Don't be evil." You know things were gonna go downhill when they got rid of that. Eat dirt Google!

[Vinsternator]

Okay now sue them for invasive ad’s, purposely down throttling users using adblockers, and selling personal information.

[ronlivingstone]

Google deserves to be sued for there corporate changes they implemented in 2013.

[ngriffin]

They care about ads more than your rights

[MrEkzotic]

Good. The "don't be evil" company turned completely evil.

[patriciajump]

Yes, back when Google began placing its paid advertisers at the head of the line in their searches, that was them controlling our info.

[J.Tronix]

Good, I have over 12, 000 reasons why I don’t trust Google

[bluevegas]

Yasss, Sue these mofos. These folks saying things we knew and have been saying publicly for YEARSSSS!

[johnkeviljr]

Break it up. Absolute power corrupts, absolutely.

[GregLakatosChradm]

Good, shut them down. They have ruined the internet.

[danielwilliams]

Look what happens when you sell your company and put some random guy in charge with a different vision. Google CEO has been a nightmare since 2015

[PaulCraddock]

Great now break up our Congress, they're the biggest monopoly of all, TERM LIMITS, PROSECUTE INSIDER TRADING, TRANSPARENCY!

[gka]

Good they deserve it for stealing my data

[kentmusgrove]

I just want a You T experience where they don't censor everything they disagree with.

[luvair]

We cancel people, but corporations never get cancelled. It is all money.

[everythingisfine]

Bad for the market? Breaking up monopolies is like injecting oxygen into the market. This is one of the few things that's going to help

[woodshed_moments]

That had to happen, Google has been playing fast and loose far too long... now here come the smaller lawsuits.

[harvcastrejon]

Good...refreshing to know not all of our gov judicial system has been bought out by gov sspecial interest groups.

[JamesBowman-vkob]

Good ! No one should have a monopoly this will only make things better, competition is always a good thing .