Anti-free speech Google has been hit with multiple antitrust lawsuits.
Google suffered an epically devastating defeat in federal court on Dec. 11 after EPIC Games Inc., the company that created Fortnite, successfully sued Google. This lawsuit stems from Google’s decision to ban EPIC Games after the company attempted to help its customers circumvent a 30% surcharge paid to Google on all EPIC games purchases. This is far from the only antitrust case Google has faced over the last few years.
Private, state and federal actors have criticized Google’s monopoly, including the Department of Justice and the founders of the social media app Rumble.
Google banned several social media apps popular with conservatives in Jan. 2021, including Rumble and Parler. As a consequence, Google drew a lawsuit from Rumble for its “anticompetitive and exclusionary…