Friday, October 30, 2020

Google suit draws news industry reactions

 

Various parties have weighed in on the Department of Justice’s antitrust suit against Google, filed last week. 

“It is good that the DOJ is starting the process, but ‘search distribution’ issues are a small subset of the many issues presented by Google dominance,” said News Media Alliance President and CEO David Chavern in a statement. “News publishers are particularly harmed by Google’s control of ad tech — and that doesn’t appear to be covered at all by the DOJ’s action today,” said the statement.

Chavern pushed for the passage of the Journalism Competition & Preservation Act in his statement.

“For Big Tech, it’s a reckoning that’s been a long time coming,” says a LA Times editorial headlined “The DOJ is taking the gloves off against Big Tech.”

“The lawsuit, which was joined by 11 state attorneys general, is likely to be just the first in a salvo of antitrust cases, legislative proposals, rule-makings and other governmental initiatives to rein in Big Tech companies,” says the piece.

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