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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

The Justice Department's antitrust enforcers unveil their plan to remake Google and the internet search industry.

Meantime, Spirit Airlines declares bankruptcy this week after the antitrust crew blocked its merger with JetBlue. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

We are joined today by my colleagues, columnist Alicia Finley, and editorial board member, Manet Uquay-Baruah. Three months ago, in a case brought

originally under the Trump administration, federal judge Ahmed Meda ruled that Google had

maintained an illegal search engine monopoly by paying browser developers and phone makers to become

the default search option for their users. On Wednesday, now, the Justice

Department unveiled its remedy proposals, and Alicia sweeping might be the best way to describe

what the government is suggesting here. Google search, the browser Chrome, these are products

that millions of Americans use every day. So maybe the best place to start

is a sense of what the federal government wants to do to them. First of all, it is proposed that

it divest Google Chrome, which is its browser. And the idea here is that Chrome collects a lot of

data that Google can use to improve or refine its search and also better target ads.

So therefore, if you force it to divest or sell off Chrome, and there's a separate question

of, like, who would be able to buy it? I mean, a lot of other tech companies presumably wouldn't

be under the antitrust laws that the DOJ and FTC have argued for. But in any case, the idea here would be that

Google would not be able to exploit this data to improve its own market position. Now, the Justice

Department also throws basically the kitchen sink at Google also saying that it should be barred

from paying Apple Mozilla device manufacturers

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