DHILLON: Trump Delivers The Google-Facebook Reckoning That Obama Refused
Harmeet K. Dhillon | Republican National Lawyers Association
1:00 PM 06/06/2019 | OPINION
Big Tech’s day of reckoning has finally arrived.
Both of the major antitrust enforcement agencies of the executive branch of the federal government are stepping into the fray, with the Department of Justice reportedly preparing for an investigation of Google parent Alphabet, Inc. and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) doing the same for social media giant Facebook.
The decision by President Trump and Attorney General William Barr to clear their regulators for action is a watershed moment, both in the history of antitrust law and in the evolution of Silicon Valley’s relationship with American society. After years in which the Obama administration delayed and thwarted any major action against the Big Tech companies, the decision has apparently even shamed some House Democrats into playing along.
This change of tack is long overdue; Google and Facebook are undoubtedly massive, manipulative monopolies.
Google controls roughly 90 percent of the online search market. Three quarters of mobile and 70 percent of desktop web browsing takes place on Google software, and its YouTube subsidiary has completely dominated the user-generated streaming video market virtually unchallenged since its inception.
Facebook’s eponymous service alone makes up more than two-thirds of the entire social media market, and it owns the rapidly growing Instagram photo-sharing service, too.
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Addressing that kind of concentrated economic power is a central purpose of antitrust law. Yet, with few exceptions, Big Tech has operated with a complete lack of serious oversight.
The benefits our society accrued from their freewheeling disruption — the “move fast and break things” ethos at the core of tech innovation — were treated as an excuse for looking the other way. Afraid to kill the golden goose, we’ve been too slow to reexamine that bargain.
It’s long past time for society to start evaluating Google, Facebook, and the other tech monopolies with a more skeptical eye. It’s a credit to President Trump that his administration is finally doing so.
Harmeet K. Dhillon (@Pnjaban) is the Republican National Committeewoman from California and vice president of communications for the Republican National Lawyers Association. She is a partner at the Dhillon Law Group.
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