It’s so rare to wake up to good tech news. But on Tuesday morning, coffee in hand, it happened: Google has been declared a monopoly. And while the ruling may feel somewhat late to the party — Google is probably the most obvious monopoly in modern tech, duh! — seeing the official recognition of its illegal monopolistic practices felt like a big win. But how much can it repair the damage that tech behemoths have done to our collective digital life?
Specifically, Judge Mehta ruled in favour of the US Department of Justice (DOJ), finding that Google broke US antitrust laws; building a monopoly over online search and suppressing competition by creating billion-dollar deals with companies like Apple and Samsung to ensure that Google is the default search engine on their devices.
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