KEY POINTS
- The Department of Justice late Tuesday indicated that it was considering a possible breakup of Google as an antitrust remedy.
- The DOJ said it was “considering behavioral and structural remedies that would prevent Google from using products such as Chrome, Play, and Android to advantage Google search.”
- The judge has yet to decide on the remedies, and Google will likely appeal, drawing out the process potentially for years.
There are the Trump cases that are objectively easy to prosecute (especially the stolen document case), since the law is clear and no good lawyer wants to represent Trump. Here the DOJ has clearly been dragging his feet for reasons that are unrelated to the legal system.
Then there are these antitrust cases that are objectively EXTREMELY complex, and where the legal arguments have to be very carefully constructed to withstand a challenge from the best lawyers money can buy. Complain about the former, not the latter
Yeah especially when you consider that this “conservative democrat president” is the one who put Lina Khan at the head of the FTC and Merrick Garland at the head of the DOJ, and is why for one of the few times In my life I’m seeing news articles about people in the government doing their fucking job of protecting the American people from American Corporations.
