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| The Department of Justice sets a deadline for responding to Google's antitrust lawsuits |
Friday's court document stipulated that Google must respond to the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit by December 19.
On Tuesday, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against the trillion-dollar company, accusing it of unlawfully using its market power to deter competitors. It is the biggest challenge to the power and influence of big tech companies in decades. Google described the lawsuit as "seriously flawed."
Google, the world's most visited website, generated $ 162 billion in sales in 2019.
Republican Senator Josh Hawley (Josh Hawley) is one of Google's most outspoken critic. He accused the company of preserving power through "illegal means" and described the lawsuit as "the most important counter-insurance for this generation." The fall of confidence. "
Compared to the lawsuit against Microsoft in 1998 and the lawsuit against AT&T in 1974 that disbanded the Bell System, the lawsuit is expected to be the largest antitrust case in a generation.
Microsoft's lawsuit paved the way for the explosive growth of the Internet as monopoly controls prevented the company from impeding its competitors.
The federal complaint filed Tuesday is a rare moment for compromise between the Trump administration and the progressive Democrats. US Senator Elizabeth Warren tweeted the hashtag #BreakUpBigTech on September 10, urging her to "take violent action quickly."
The lawsuit comes a year after the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission conducted a monopoly investigation against four major tech companies: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google.
Seven years ago, the Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement agreement with Google to conduct a monopoly investigation, accusing its search engine of misrepresenting its products. Some FTC attorneys objected to the settlement.
It should be noted that Google faces similar legal challenges outside the US as well. The European Union imposed a $ 1.7 billion fine on Google in 2019 to prevent websites from using their competitors. To find advertisers and fines for personal purchases in 2017. $ 2.6 billion. For this reason, a fine of $ 4.9 billion was imposed in 2018 to deter competitors from using the Android system.