Google will face the Department of Justice and the dishes of state general prosecutors in a high -risk remedy phase for the search antimonopoly case he lost last year. The remedy phase that begins today could result in the technological giant being forced to sell key assets.
Bloomberg reports that Google and the United States government will begin a three -week trial focused on remedies for what a judge has already ruled is the illegal monopoly of the company in the online search market. Last year, the US district judge. Amit Mehta determined that Google has maintained an illegal monopoly in the search through its more than $ 26 billion in annual payments to Apple and other companies to be the predetermined options of Search.
The Department of Justice is now looking for significantly structural changes in Google to restore competition in the search market. Government’s proponated remedies include forcing Google to sell their Chrome web browser, license their search index and algorithms to competitors, and stop the payment of predetermined positions of exclusive search on devices and services.
Google strongly opposes the proposals of the Department of Justice, arguing that they would harm consumers and quell innovation. The company states that the forced sale of Chrome would “break” many popular products and characteristics. As an alternative, Google has proposed measures that would allow you to share search ads with device and operators manufacturers, even if users choose a different predetermined search engine.
Judge Mehta will have to make competitive arguments and, ultimately, decide what changes, if there are, to impose Google’s commercial practices and structures. It is a transcendental case, since the United States government has broken an important company from AT&T in 1982. If Mehta orders a significant rupture or restructuring of Google, it would be the most consistent result or the antimonopoly case of a government in decades.
However, any remedy that Mehta imposes will probably be suspended for years, since Google is expected to appeal the decision, potentially to the Supreme Court. Even so, the case represses an important proof of government capacity to control the power of dominant technological platforms after years of a perceived practice approach by regulators.
The trial is the culmination of Leghy’s government investigation into Google that begged the Trump administration. The Department of Justice first sued Google in October 2020 about its alleged search monopoly. The separate demands have also been presented by the government aimed at Google’s domain in digital advertising, a case that was also decided in favor of the government. Tasks together, the cases represent an unprecedented antitrust assault against one of the most valuable and powerful companies in the world.
With so much at stake, the remedy phase will have testimonies of high profile witnesses, including the Google CEO, Sussian Pichai, and the Apple Eddy Cue executive, who negotiated Google’s billionaire payments to ensure the state of breach. Microsoft, Mozilla, Verizon and other rivals from Google are also expected to testify.
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Lucas Nolan is a reporter of Knitbart News that cover issues of freedom of expression and online censorship.
