Biden’s Justice Department Suing Google — For Being Too Popular With Consumers

It appears that the crime that Google is being charged with is that the company is too successful.

AP/Marcio Jose Sanchez, file
Google headquarters at Mountain View, California. AP/Marcio Jose Sanchez, file

You may have heard the Justice Department is suing Google in federal court for being a “monopoly.” That’s a bizarre charge given that few, if any, companies in all American history have lowered prices more than Google — which provides access to information that used to take hours or days to find — with merely a click of a button and instantaneously. And it does it basically for free.

Wait, I thought monopolies are bad because they RAISE prices. Google does the opposite. If you’re a consumer and a user of Google searches and you feel aggrieved, raise your hand.

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