From the New York Times, I'm Serena Tavernice, 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 one of those companies in the first monopoly trial of

the internet era.

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 11.

So David, this week, in a federal court in Washington, D.C., 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 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

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