[EBH]

The lawsuit on Tuesday describes a campaign by Google to monopolize advertising technology and then abuse that dominance, to the detriment of publishers, advertisers and ultimately consumers.

The Justice Department and the states, which include New York and California, said Google had built its monopoly by buying up crucial tools that delivered ads to publishers. As a result, advertisers paid more for space on the internet and publishers made less money, as Google took its cut, they said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/24/technology/google-ads-lawsuit.html

[fireman15]

I am not really buying into this very much. The DOJ has been weaponized and become a political tool of the left. Google is far left; it is probably just a reminder for them to start contributing more to the Democrats now or face the consequences.

On the other hand, Bill Gates has always been a lefty and the Clinton DOJ went after Microsoft. But at that time, it was fashionable in lefty circles to do anything that helped out Apple.