What Next TBD: Google Makes Its Case

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🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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A trial a decade in the making has started, as the U.S. Justice Department’s antitrust case against Google and its unrivaled position as the top search engine begins. Is this the beginning of the government “taking on Big Tech” and the end of Google as we know it? Guest: Leah Nylen, covering antitrust for Bloomberg. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were Liars.
0:08.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:10.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers. We were liars. New series, watch now, only on
0:28.9	Prime Video. What would it take for you to line up at a courthouse at 4.30 in the morning?
0:43.9	According to Leah Nyland, who covers antitrust for Bloomberg News, that's what was happening in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday.
0:51.5	I didn't get here until 7.30, and I was the first reporter here because I'm a nerd.
0:57.7	There were people who really wanted to get in. They had the regular courtroom and two
1:03.7	overflows, actually, on the very first day.
1:06.6	That's the very first day of United States versus Google,
1:11.8	a.k.a. the biggest antitrust trial in more than 20 years.
1:16.6	How long have you, Leah, been waiting for this trial?
1:21.2	Oh, probably, I mean, 12 years.
1:28.0	Really? Well, I mean, 12 years. Really?
1:28.9	Well, I mean, so when I first started on the beat,
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