The most money-making part of the internet is search -- deciding what people see when they look for products, information, and political information --and Google is a monopolist in it.
They're also a monopolist in the second biggest money-making part of the internet sector -- placing ads on websites -- but this judge hasn't ruled on that.
And of course the search function gives Google the power to privilege some businesses (like CNN) and punish others (like mine). And of course this isn't a hypothetical power they can abuse; try searching for "Trump rally" and they'll serve you ten articles for "Kamala Harris rally."Search for news about anything and Google will make you scroll through two or three pages of results until you find one that isn't from CNN, MSNBC, Bloomberg, AL FUCKING JAZEERA, etc.
They use their monopoly power to create a Reality Distortion Field the power and extent of which would make Hitler and Stalin go green with envy.
That's why monopolies are illegal: Because the monopolist has the power from his one part of the economy, which is already distorted by the presence of a monopoly, to distort many other parts of the economy. He can use his monopoly power in one market to distort other markets.
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