The Justice Department’s antitrust chief came out swinging against Google and Amazon on Tuesday.
Justice Department antitrust chief Makan Delrahim, shown in June 2018, on Tuesday compared today's technology giants to Standard Oil and other companies the U.S. government broke up.
“The current landscape suggests there are only one or two significant players in important digital spaces, including internet search, social networks, mobile and desktop operating systems and electronic book sales,” Delrahim said in a Tuesday speech. Delrahim described “coordinated conduct that creates or enhances market power,” citing a proposed 2008 agreement between Google and Yahoo to have the former power search ads for the latter. He said the department told the companies it would file suit against the agreement and the companies backed away.
Delrahim played a cameo role in the Microsoft case, which he said arguably paved the way for companies such as Google, Yahoo and Apple to enter the market with their own desktop and mobile products. During the case, he served as counsel to then-Sen. Orrin Hatch , who was Microsoft’s chief legislative antagonist. Delrahim quoted Hatch on Tuesday, saying that robust antitrust enforcement to preserve competition in technology was preferable to later regulation.
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