Hello and welcome to an equity shot. My name is Alex Wilhelm.

I have Danny Criden on the phone.

Danny, how are you?

I'm doing it all right, Alex.

How are you today?

Better than Google, who has been sued by the DOJ and 11 state AGs over anti-competitive behavior.

Now Danny, we have known for a long time that this was coming.

It was pre-Saged, I think, rather heavily.

I have had a chance to dig into the actual filing. I have many many opinions but just

going to set the ground here for people that are tuning in and are unsure of why we've reached this moment.

Why Google and why now? Well it did take me a little bit of time to find the

filing I was using Bing and after a while I gave up and used Google which may be part of the problem

but let's let's boil it down so you know obviously big tech has gotten really really large over the last decade

There's been increasing concerns about all the big tech companies everything from Facebook to Apple to Google and onwards and onwards

One of the angles that the government is trying to take on sort of regulating these companies

is around antitrust.

So in the United States, the major antitrust act is the Sherman Act.

That's what the DOJ filed under this morning under section two.

It's particularly focused on search and particularly search advertising.

And so, you know, one of the things on the conference call with journalists this morning

that the W.D. A.G. was talking about

is you know obviously there's a lot of concerns about social media bias. There's a lot of

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