The First Big Antitrust Trial of the Century Is About to Start

Re:The First Big Antitrust Trial of the Century Is About to ... by EMIRELADERO on Sunday August 06, 2023 @10:26PM (#37029309)

For your information, it actually is being made by the DOJ, just not on this lawsuit.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-googl...

The press release doesn't mention it, but the actual court document asks the court to:

"Order the divestiture of, at minimum, the Google Ad Manager suite, including both Google’s publisher ad server, DFP, and Google’s ad exchange, AdX, along with any additional structural relief as needed to cure any anticompetitive harm"

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Re:The First Big Antitrust Trial of the Century Is About to ... by huitzitziltzin on Sunday August 06, 2023 @11:35PM (#37029771)

Some of those other claims are quite strong, IMO. There’s a good case to be made there.

However, asking for a structural remedy like divestiture after so much time is going to be a tall order, to say the least. Generally courts don’t like to meddle directly in the way firms are run (correctly, in my view).

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Re:The First Big Antitrust Trial of the Century Is About to ... by EMIRELADERO on Monday August 07, 2023 @01:26AM (#37030486)

Assuming all the claims about harm are true as alleged, what would your ideal damage remedies be?

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