Google says US DOJ trying to regulate, restructure marketplace
( May 21, 2025, 21:27 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Google told a US federal judge that the Department of Justice’s proposed remedies in a lawsuit over Google’s illegal monopoly in Internet search markets amount to legislation overtly regulating and forcibly restructuring the marketplace. It said the express divestiture proposals covering Chrome and Android are so unjustified as to appear to be throwaways to create the illusion that other provisions are somehow reasonable and justified. Additionally, the forced data disclosure and syndication proposals would result in the largest forcible transfer of intellectual property in the history of US antitrust law, and the proposed ban on payments for any type of distribution of Google Search, Chrome, or any Generative AI product bears no relationship to the factual record. Finally, Google said the DOJ is seeking to interfere in a myriad of other products and industry dealings that have no bearing on competition among general search engines or relationship to the conduct at issue in the relevant case. See attached file. ...
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