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Department of Justice sued google.

 The DoJ has sued Google for allegedly exer­cising mono­pol­istic con­trol of the digital ads mar­ket in the latest legal


broad­side against the US tech­no­logy giant.—The US Depart­ment of Justice has sued Google for allegedly exer­cising mono­pol­istic con­trol of the digital advert­ising mar­ket, in the latest legal broad­side against the busi­ness as Wash­ing­ton seeks to crack down on the dom­in­ance of Big Tech.

A com­plaint filed yes­ter­day by the DoJ and a group of US states in a Vir­ginia fed­eral court accuses Google of using «anti-com­pet­it­ive, exclu­sion­ary and unlaw­ful means to elim­in­ate or severely dimin­ish any threat to its dom­in­ance over digital advert­ising tech­no­lo­gies».


The ‘behemoth’ is accused of ‘a sys­tem­atic cam­paign to seize con­trol of the wide swath of high-tech tools’

Author­it­ies also accused Google of hav­ing «per­vas­ive con­flicts of interest» because it con­trols numer­ous aspects of the digital ad mar­ket, includ­ing the tech used by web­site pub­lish­ers to sell ad space and the biggest exchange where ads are sold.
The US gov­ern­ment has accused Google of viol­at­ing the 1890 Sher­man Anti­trust Act, one of the coun­try’s main cor­por­ate anti­trust laws. It is seek­ing dam­ages and demand­ing that the com­pany be forced to divest its Google Ad Man­ager suite.
Google did not respond to a request for com­ment.
This is the first law­suit against Google filed by the DoJ’s anti­trust unit under the lead­er­ship of Jonathan Kanter, a critic of Big Tech who has pri­or­it­ised crack­ing down on anti-com­pet­it­ive prac­tices in the industry.

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  1. Ana25 January 2023 at 11:38

    This was coming sooner or later. Google has no real competitor in its market so it was just a matter of time before they started eliminating or diminishing potential threats to its dominance.

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    1. Rebecca25 January 2023 at 12:03

      They've been doing this for years and no one at the DoJ seemed to notice. I wonder what changed?

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    2. Tim25 January 2023 at 13:10

      I think Jonathan Kanter has it in for Google plus he might be supported by other people and companies that want Google to suffer and lose some of its power.

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