<p style="font-weight: 400;">On Monday, the Justice Department made remarks before the court, urging a U.S. district judge to force Google to relinquish its ownership of the Chrome web browser.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“Google, which controls about 90% of the global search market, has used illegal agreements to sideline its rivals and harmed consumers and advertisers in the process,” The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-justice-department-search-monopoly-hearing-d527c010?mod=hp_lead_pos5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>. “A trial last year, focused just on liability, revealed that Google has paid Apple more than $20 billion a year for Google’s search engine to be the default on Apple’s Safari web browser.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust Gail Slater, and Justice Department official David Dahlquist made their remarks to U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, who <a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-loses-federal-antitrust-case-27810c43" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> last year, “Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one” as he ruled that Google had illegally preserved its search engine monopoly.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“President Trump took the first big step in 2020 when his Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google to challenge its dominance over internet search,” Blanche <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/deputy-attorney-general-todd-blanche-delivers-remarks-opening-arguments-google-search" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Mehta. “Today, as the remedies phase of that case begins, President Trump’s Justice Department will finish the job.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“As a monopolist, Google uses its market power against the American people,” Blanche continued. “It has control of an extraordinary amount of data about ordinary Americans. Google has deplatformed conservative speech and has put its thumb on the scale politically for years. All of this behavior is downstream from Google’s monopoly power over internet search. This antitrust case addresses that monopoly power. The Department has asked the court to impose remedies that will ensure Google can never again wield such dominance over internet search.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“This case was filed during President Trump’s first term and litigated across three administrations,” Slater <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/assistant-attorney-general-gail-slater-delivers-remarks-opening-arguments-google-search" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointed out</a>. “It has unified our nation. Forty-nine states, two territories and the District of Columbia have all joined the Department of Justice in prosecuting Google here. And for good reason. Each generation has called for the DOJ to challenge a behemoth that crushed competition. In decades past, it was Standard Oil and AT&amp;T. Today’s behemoth is Google. It is a gatekeeper for our commerce and our information. It is so ubiquitous and so powerful that it interacts with millions of Americans, billions of times per day. Fortunately, DOJ’s Antitrust Division exists for cases just like this one.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“We’re at an inflection point,” Dahlquist told Mehta. “This court has an opportunity to remedy a monopoly that has controlled the internet for today’s generation and restore competition for decades to come.”</p>

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