OK Google, What's A Monopoly
What A Day
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🗓️ 21 October 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The Justice Department filed a major lawsuit against Google saying that the company is illegally trying to maintain its search dominance using anti-competitive practices. We look at what's the behind the case and what it could mean for Google.
Trial volunteers in London will be deliberately infected with COVID-19 to aid in vaccine research starting in January, if a plan by researchers gets approval from regulators. In the US, the governors of California and New York are pledging review any FDA-approved vaccine before disseminating it to the public in their states.
And in headlines: a grand juror in the Breonna Taylor case speaks out, Ireland reimposes shutdown, and Phil Collins’ house is occupied by his ex-wife and armed guards.
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"Why the US government is suing Google"
https://www.vox.com/recode/21524710/google-antitrust-lawsuit-doj-search-trump-bill-barr
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, October 21st. I'm Achilles Hughes. |
| 0:09.2 | And I'm Gideon Resneck and this is what today where we honestly thought Trump knew better than to come at Leslie Stahl. |
| 0:14.4 | Dude, you will never win this fight. We're citizens of the United States of Stahl America. |
| 0:18.8 | That is for sure. Miss Stahl, if you were interested, I'm personally inviting you to replace me on wine. |
| 0:23.6 | Yeah, Leslie and Gidey have the same number of syllables, so it won't even be a problem. |
| 0:30.0 | On today's show, researchers in the UK plan to purposely infect people with COVID for science, then some headlines. |
| 0:40.8 | But first the latest. |
| 0:42.4 | The software industry, which contributed over 100 billion to the national economy last year, |
| 0:47.6 | is an open economic opportunity for any entrepreneur in America. |
| 0:52.8 | Will the United States continue its breathtaking technological advances? |
| 0:59.0 | I believe can be answered resoundingly yes. |
| 1:02.2 | The innovation is not restricted by government. |
| 1:05.6 | That was Bill Gates testifying the Congress in the 90s, right before Microsoft, |
| 1:09.2 | the big tech titan of the time, faced a major federal antitrust case. |
| 1:13.4 | And yesterday something similar happened. |
| 1:15.3 | The Justice Department filed a major lawsuit against Google following a 14-month investigation. |
| 1:20.0 | It has to do with the topic we've discussed on the show before, tech companies and monopoly power. |
| 1:24.8 | This case is the most significant action the government has taken against a tech company |
| 1:28.6 | probably since Microsoft. |
| 1:29.8 | So let's get into the details of what we know so far. |
| 1:32.4 | Yeah, so the DOJ put out this 57-page complaint. |
| 1:35.2 | And overall what they're saying is that Google is illegally trying to maintain its search |
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