Hey Google, Are You Too Big?
Planet Money
NPR
4.6 • 29.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Planet Money from NPR. |
| 0:06.8 | For years now, as the big tech companies turned into really big tech companies, and then |
| 0:12.4 | into really, really big tech companies, there has been this looming question, will the |
| 0:17.8 | United States government take these companies to court? |
| 0:21.9 | Will the government use anti-trust law, the part of the law that covers competition, to |
| 0:26.9 | try to prevent these newly, really, really big companies from shutting out competitors |
| 0:32.0 | in a way that hurts consumers, in a way that hurts everybody else, in a way that hurts |
| 0:35.6 | us. |
| 0:36.6 | And yesterday, the government answered that question. |
| 0:39.8 | The answer was yes. |
| 0:40.8 | The answer was yes. |
| 0:42.0 | Yesterday, the United States Department of Justice dug out its copy of the Sherman Anti-Trust |
| 0:47.5 | Act of 1890 and filed a lawsuit. |
| 0:51.4 | Possibly the biggest anti-trust lawsuit the government has brought in the 21st century |
| 0:56.8 | and it is against Google. |
| 0:58.8 | Google. |
| 0:59.8 | Google. |
| 1:00.8 | The United States of America versus Google LLC. |
| 1:06.1 | It's not US for a self-abet? |
| 1:07.1 | Nope. |
| 1:08.1 | I got the complaint right here. |
| 1:09.1 | It's Google. |
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