What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Google Makes Its Case
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:35.2 | What would it take for you to line up at a courthouse at 4.30 in the morning? |
| 0:41.1 | According to Leah Nyland, who covers antitrust for Bloomberg news, |
| 0:45.1 | that's what was happening in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday. |
| 0:48.7 | I didn't get here until 7.30 and I was the first reporter here because I'm a nerd. |
| 0:54.8 | There were people who were really wanted to get in. |
| 0:58.4 | They had the regular courtroom and two overflows actually on the very first day. |
| 1:03.8 | That's the very first day of United States versus Google, |
| 1:09.0 | aka the biggest antitrust trial in more than 20 years. |
| 1:13.9 | How long have you, Leah, been waiting for this trial? |
| 1:18.4 | Oh, uh, probably, I mean, 12 years? |
| 1:25.3 | Really? |
| 1:26.1 | Well, I mean, so when I first started on the beat, there was an investigation into Google going on at the time. |
| 1:33.4 | By a different agency, the Federal Trade Commission, |
| 1:36.0 | they ultimately ended up not bringing a case that was like one of my very first years on the beat. |
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