Former DOJ antitrust chief says a Google break up will benefit the internet

is editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of the Decoder podcast , and co-host of The Vergecast Today, we’re talking about the very real possibility that the United States government might break up Google. To figure that all out, I invited Jonathan Kanter, the former assistant attorney general for antitrust under the Biden administration, to join me on Decoder again. Jonathan left the DOJ after President Trump was elected, but he was the architect of the major antitrust cases that Google just lost, and which the Trump administration continues to pursue. In the first case, the court found that Google illegally maintained its monopoly over web search with a series of default placement deals, most particularly on the iPhone. That case is back in court right now for the second phase of the trial, where a judge will decide what the remedy will be — essentially, how Google will be punished. The government is asking for a very big remedy: it wants Google to sell off its Chrome browser and make ... Read full article.