Google has spent a decade sharpening its “weapons” in an industry that helps sustain large swaths of the open internet, the Justice Department argued before a federal judge Monday. After years of operating an illegal monopoly in two ad tech markets and unlawfully tying its products together, nothing short of a break up will suffice to overcome Google’s “massive head start” over rivals, it claims.
DOJ attorney Julia Tarver Wood began her opening arguments in the remedies trial for the US v. Google ad tech case by quoting Winston Churchill’s warning that “those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” The government argued tha …
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Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/policy/783285/google-doj-ad-tech-remedies-trial
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