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US Sues Google & Taylor Swift Ticket Fiasco

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Do You Think the Justice Department Is Calling for the Breakup of a Major Company?

This is one of the few times that the Justice Department has called for the breakup of a major company since it dismantled bail in the 1980s. It would be different if a company was bought for pro-competitive reasons, let's say, but then behaved badly and engaged in exclusionary tactics with that monopoly to then keep out rivals. But here they say, just buying double-click,let's say, and AdMob and some of the other pieces of this puzzle that they bought, maybe should have been stopped by the agency at the time of the acquisition, but weren't. And now we need to seek to have them sold off.

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