CJL director Courtney Radsch speaks on her support of structural remedies against Google to dismantle its entrenched market dominance and foster competition.

The US Department of Justice has proposed a range of punchy remedies to address Google’s dominance of the internet search market, including the forced divestment of its Chrome browser.

Google said the proposals represented a “radical interventionist agenda” that would harm America’s standing as a tech superpower.

Big tech’s power, and whether and how it should be tamed, has become a political and regulatory talking point on both sides of the Atlantic. This will be one of the defining confrontations of that debate.

What is the Department of Justice proposing?

The DoJ has asked a federal judge to consider several remedies after a ruling in August that found Google was operating an illegal monopoly in the search market.

The main proposal is to force Google to sell off its Chrome browser – a key gateway to its search engine and the most popular browser in the US. Other proposed remedies include making Google’s search index, a database of all the webpages it has crawled, available to rivals at marginal cost; scrapping payments to third parties to make Google the default search engine on their products; and giving publishers and content creators the ability to block their data from being used to train its artificial intelligence models.

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