DOJ Sues Google, Seeking to Break Up Online Advertising Business

The Justice Department is seeking the breakup of Google’s business brokering digital advertising across much of the internet, a major expansion of the legal challenges the company faces to its business in the U.S. and abroad.
Link: DOJ Sues Google, Seeking to Break Up Online Advertising Business - WSJ

This DOJ does a pretty good job of explaining a very complex issue in my opinion.

Here is simple visual that shows what a monopoly looks like today.

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This is a great diagram @GeorgeWescott - thank you for sharing this!

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It will be interesting to see what anti-trust campaigner Matt Stoller makes of the case as it proceeds (Matt’s site/newsletter signup https://mattstoller.substack.com/)

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