In a recent court order, federal district court Judge Amit Mehta said what most of us have suspected for years: Google’s market dominance in online searches isn’t a result of “happenstance,” but deliberate and intentional misconduct.
As Mehta said in his Aug. 5 ruling: “Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” in violation of the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act.
That’s the same law that the greatest monopoly-busting president in American history, Teddy Roosevelt, used more than 100 years ago to break up the same type of corporate behemoths that were trying to control and dominate the U.S. economy.
Some of those targeted were single companies such as Google; others were “trusts” in which several companies conspired to combine their power to monopolize and control both prices and supply.
This may lead to Google being…
