From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Taverny Sea, and this is the Daily.

For years, the government has been trying to rein in big tech, pursuing some of the biggest and most powerful companies on the Internet.

This week, the government takes on powerful companies on the internet.

This week, the government takes on one of those companies in the first monopoly trial of the internet era.

Today. Today, my colleague David McCabe, on the government's case against Google and what it might mean for the future if it wins.

It's Monday, September 11th.

So David, this week in a federal court in Washington DC, the Justice Department is making its case against Google. What's this all about?

The government has become increasingly obsessed with this question of whether the tech giants, including Google, got so big by breaking laws that were designed to rein in corporations more than a century ago.

And by doing that, have they hurt consumers?

Have they hurt other companies, smaller companies that are coming up with innovative ideas?

And this week, government lawyers are going to walk into a courtroom

and begin to make the case that Google has broken the law.

And this is the first time the Justice Department is trying to do this with the tech giant in decades.

The last time was when they took Microsoft to court in 1998. And then the

tech industry changed. The internet created these giant companies that built big

platforms for how we access information and

culture and communicate and Google is probably more emblematic of that

era of the internet than any other company. It seemed literally became a verb synonymous

with what it does.

Indeed.

And this case isn't just going to be

about the last era of technology. It's also going to be about the last era of technology.

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