Google is a monopolist and it acted unlawfully to maintain it, West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said, paraphrasing the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia’s ruling Monday that tech giant Google had abused its monopoly power over its internet search business. Google paid enormous amounts of money to keep its search engine as the default mobile search program on leading mobile phones.
“This is a big win for consumers and the free market,” Attorney General Morrisey said. “We have maintained all along in the case that we need to bring back digital search competition, a key element for consumers to make educated and rational decisions.”
“A healthy free-market economy thrives on competition not in monopoly.”
The U.S. District Court found Google has acted as to maintain its monopoly, and it has violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act.
Attorney General Morrisey joined the U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit with 34 states, two U.S. territories and the District of Columbia.
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