Tech Antitrust Renaissance may already be finished

About six years ago, the new gathering scream closed through Washington: “Break up Big Tech”.

It was a slogan emblazoned Posters for campaignspronounced on Congress hearingAnd it started, it seems, to resonate through the corridors of the nation antitrust forces. Swing in legislation He finally petrowedBut the Executors in the Justice Department and the Federal Commission remained more active than ever. President Joe Biden never took a kind of keeping big technologies that politically rivals like Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) or Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) has adopted, but still, when he became president in 2021. year, he attracted Lina Khan – who first made a name as a student to exhibit the student Antitrustic case against Amazon in Yale Lav Journal – To go to the Federal Trade Commission. Skeva Legal Complaints against Google, Amazon and Apple, threatens to dissolve its alleged monopolies (some first brought to Donald Trump administration), began piling up.

In the past year, the US government seemed to be on something of the winning stripe, the kids’ wins in not one, But two His oriental antitrust cases against Google. However, on Tuesday, the Justice Department finally hit the stumbling block. Judge Amit Mehta, who was strongly declared that Google was an illegal monopolist, only awarded several government-requested legal remedies outside what Google has received itself. He rejected the most aggressive Doy proposals, such as forcing Google to sell his Chrome browser, and significantly narrowed others, such as Google data, had to share with rivals so that they could compete.

Numerous cases of technological antitrust that the government has brought in the last few years, this is the first case to judge a decision on remedies. It is possible that judges will choose a sharp approach in other cases. Dain and Google will meet in the courtroom of Virginia to claim appropriate remedies to restore competition in the Tech market that the judge discovered that Google also monopolizes it. The break is Still on the table.

However, a careful approach to Mehta to solve Google’s search monopoly is good news not only for Google, but for all technological giants and indicators how difficult they are to smash them. The terms via administrations specify years of stagnation for cases against four largest technological companies. Mehta is its own 2024. Judgment against Google, declaring that the illegal monopoly is looking, historically. But in the end, it seems, significant changes in the restoration of competition will not be upheld. In order to prevent breakdown, Tech titanium is only needed to flash once.

This obstacle is further complicated by the lime nature of the technical industry – something that has predicted a lot as likely, but which became highly visibly complicated with explosion in the generization of AI Tech. Mehta pointed out the increase in the AI ​​industry to justify support from some legal remedies that could give more considerations before the new technology is shown. While acknowledging Google to pay for the default distribution spots “, it is reasonable to pay a well-financed and startups to generally show the signs, the field search market, field that are technical insiders described as “the largest zone without flying” before.

Mehta opened the door open to the audits of some of his drugs if his measured approach does not return the competition in a network search. He said “ready to revise a payment ban (or less) if the competition cannot be significantly renewed by the legal remedies that the Court imposes”, for example.

This is a far cry from “breaking” up “, and groups of politicians and advocates now, the latest Judgment of Mehtovs, the CEO Barri Linn said that the Mehta will” release Google and every other monopolist that even most endangered violations of law will be filled with waterfall The wrist. “CEO of American Economic Freedom (AELP) The CEO of Nidhi Hegde said in a statement,” the imposition of responsibility only in the name is a purely judicial cowardice. This judgment leaves a public unprotected, key and developing market, sending signal everywhere. “MPs involving Varren, which occurred” during their presidential offer 2020. years, they called on the Loy to regret.

Nevertheless, the main main Gail Giar Slater hit the winning tone in his verdict statement. “The first Trump administration sued Google to return the competition for millions of Americans undergoing Google’s abuses,” she said in the statement. “Today, the second Trump administration won the medicine to do this just that.” Slater admitted that Mehta failed to approve all the legal remedies that Laughter asked and said “continues to reconsider the opinion to consider the department options and the next steps in connection with the request of additional benefits.” But her comments abolished the verdict as a judicial certificate of “need to renew the competition on the long-positioned search market” and proclaimed “President Trump, the Department of Justice is again that America is reblogged again.”

The reactions from the technical industry and Wall Street seem to make it easy to make a different picture. Google and her allies, still strengthened the basic verdict considered a monopoly, sounded restrained in their statements. Still, Google’s stock price they recorded 9 percent The day after the verdict, avoiding the worst scenario for the company in the eyes of its investors.

Other technical companies, such as apples and Mozille, inhaled a sigh of mitigation. Both will be Allowed to keep your search offers entered With Google to keep it by default in their browsers. During the trial of legal remedies, the executive director of Mozille warned that the loss of that income would be existential for Firefox Browserand Apple Ekecutive Eddi Cue similarly framed Income hit as a pure loss for Apple who would mostly save Google money. Laura Chambers, Temporary Director of Mozille Corporation, said that “encouraging the court recognizes the risk of unerring consequences when trying to improve competitions like Firefox, but for the future of the open web”, not just for search engines. “

While lawyers over the technical industry digest what the Judgment of Mehta 230 pages meant for their company, advocates call for the appeal of DoJ. Some even return back to an option that looked all the broken in recent years: Congress. “We believe that Congress should now go through Google to do what is most afraid of: competing,” Gabriel Weinberg, General Manager of the search competitor Duckduckgo, said in the statement. Sen. Ami Klobuchar (D-MN), which a pre-introduced substance account To prevent technical platforms of self-confidence of own products, he used a moment for a moment to call for his revival. “Today’s judgment is a reminder of Google’s strength over the network economy,” said the statement, “but limited drugs ordered by the Court show why we need additional rules for great technologies.”