{"id":19479,"date":"2025-04-15T23:35:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T23:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/why-antitrust-breakups-of-google-and-meta-could-be-difficult\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T23:35:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T23:35:50","slug":"why-antitrust-breakups-of-google-and-meta-could-be-difficult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/why-antitrust-breakups-of-google-and-meta-could-be-difficult\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Antitrust Breakups of Google and Meta Could Be Difficult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The last time the courts seriously weighed the wisdom of breaking up a giant technology company was a quarter-century ago, after <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1999\/06\/28\/business\/point-counterpoint-in-the-microsoft-trial.html\" title=\"\">Microsoft was found to have illegally stifled competition<\/a> in personal computer software.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A Federal District Court judge said yes to forcing Microsoft to split in two, separating its monopoly Windows operating system from its Office productivity products and other software. But an <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2001\/06\/28\/technology\/us-appeals-court-overturns-microsoft-breakup-ruling.html\" title=\"\">appeals court threw out<\/a> the order, calling the breakup option \u201ca remedy that is imposed only with great caution, in part because its long-term efficacy is rarely certain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a pair of landmark proceedings this month in two Washington courtrooms, the issue of possibly breaking up a big tech company will be on the judicial table again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In an antitrust trial that began on Monday, the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/14\/technology\/meta-antitrust-trial-ftc.html\" title=\"\">Federal Trade Commission argued that Meta<\/a> maintained an illegal monopoly in social media through its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. The agency seeks to force Meta to divest both. Next week at a separate proceeding, a federal judge will hear arguments from <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/20\/technology\/google-search-chrome-doj.html\" title=\"\">the Justice Department<\/a> about why the court should break up Google in order to remedy the company\u2019s monopoly in internet search.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cDivestiture can be an entirely acceptable remedy, depending on the severity of the harm,\u201d said William Kovacic, a law professor at George Washington University and a former chairman of the F.T.C. \u201cBut it can be risky surgery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For generations, the courts have faced the quandary of what action to take in major antitrust cases once a dominant company has been found to have engaged in anticompetitive behavior. In a 1947 Supreme Court ruling, Justice Robert H. Jackson memorably wrote that if a court\u2019s solution did not open the market to competition, the government would have \u201cwon a lawsuit and lost a cause.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But while a court\u2019s ruling is based on examining facts in the past, its remedy looks to the future. The goal is to free up markets rather than hobble them \u2014 and create a competitive environment that results in more new ideas, new companies, more innovation and lower prices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The challenge is taking on new significance as regulators make a major push to rein in the tech giants in a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/13\/technology\/trump-tech-antitrust-cases.html\" title=\"\">string of antitrust cases<\/a> objecting to the power they have over communications, commerce and information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a different <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/25\/technology\/google-advertising-monopoly.html\" title=\"\">lawsuit against Google<\/a>, the Justice Department is awaiting a judge\u2019s decision on the company\u2019s dominance in advertising technology. The department has <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/21\/technology\/apple-doj-lawsuit-antitrust.html\" title=\"\">also sued Apple<\/a> over its tactics to protect its lucrative iPhone franchise. The F.T.C. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/09\/26\/technology\/ftc-amazon.html\" title=\"\">has sued Amazon<\/a>, saying the company illegally shielded its monopoly in online retailing from competition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This wave of antitrust litigation, including appeals, is likely to last for years. And if the government wins any of its cases, a judge could order a breakup \u2014 the worst-case outcome for the companies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">History shows that these orders can be effective, antitrust experts said. But the results in improving competition has been mixed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Standard Oil, an energy giant founded by John D. Rockefeller in 1870, was the defining case of the progressive, trustbusting era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The company was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.nytimes.com\/learning.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/15\/may-15-1911-supreme-court-orders-standard-oil-to-be-broken-up\/\" title=\"\">broken up by the Supreme Court<\/a> in 1911, split into 34 entities that had made up the original Standard Oil Trust, which controlled the oil industry\u2019s production, refining, distribution and pricing. While that initially helped competition, over time the trust\u2019s descendants became oil giants of their own, including Exxon Mobil, Chevron and ConocoPhillips.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The breakup of AT&amp;T, in a settlement in 1982, followed a lengthy antitrust suit by the Justice Department, which accused the company of illegally monopolizing the telecommunications market in America. The local phone business was split into seven regional \u201cBaby Bell\u201d companies, and the order opened up the long-distance phone and telephone equipment markets, increasing competition and driving down prices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In antitrust jargon, a \u201cstructural\u201d solution like this generally means a breakup. But there are <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.promarket.org\/2024\/04\/27\/antitrust-enforcers-must-act-now-to-ensure-the-google-search-case-delivers-on-its-promise\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">steps short of a forced sell-off<\/a> that can shape markets and stimulate competition, antitrust experts said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 1969, under pressure from a government antitrust suit accusing it of monopolizing the computer market of its day, IBM unbundled its hardware from software \u2014 treating them as separate businesses, sold and priced independently. Software would no longer be \u201cfree,\u201d included in the price of a computer. That helped ignite the rise of the commercial software industry, with Microsoft as the biggest winner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/14\/business\/google-antitrust-microsoft-precedent.html\" title=\"\">Microsoft avoided a breakup<\/a>, but its eventual settlement in 2001 contained a prohibition against contracts that had essentially used its Windows monopoly as a club by restricting personal computer makers from distributing the software of upstart rivals. That restraint kept the door open to new competition in browser software and search. Google was the leading beneficiary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThose were strong remedies without a breakup that created more competition,\u201d said Fiona Scott Morton, an economics professor at the Yale University School of Management.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The next powerful tech companies to face courtroom scrutiny are Meta and Google.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Monday, the F.T.C. and Meta, formerly Facebook, presented their opening statements in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Mark Zuckerberg, the company\u2019s chief executive, then took the stand. The essence of the government\u2019s case is that Facebook vastly overpaid more than a decade ago for Instagram and WhatsApp, to kill them off to protect a lucrative monopoly in social networking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Meta replied that Instagram and WhatsApp had grown and flourished under its ownership. And, the company argued, there is plenty of competition in the social networking market, including the meteoric rise of TikTok.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Should the government win the Meta case, the likely remedial step, antitrust experts said, would be a court order to sell off Instagram and WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Next week in the same Washington court, Google faces the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/06\/technology\/google-search-antitrust-remedies.html\" title=\"\">remedies stage in the lawsuit<\/a> by the Justice Department and a group of states over its internet search monopoly. In August, Judge Amit P. Mehta found that Google illegally maintained a search monopoly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">To restore competition, the government asked the court to order Google to sell Chrome, its popular web browser, and either spin off Android, its smartphone operating system, or be barred from making its services mandatory on Android phones. Chrome and Android are powerful distribution channels for Google search.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Google has described the government\u2019s list as a \u201cwildly overboard proposal\u201d that \u201cgoes miles beyond the court\u2019s decision\u201d and that would harm consumers by offering them inferior products. The company has also said it will appeal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Tim Wu, a law professor at Columbia University who was a White House adviser on technology and competition policy in the Biden administration, supports breakups in the Google and Meta cases.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf you want to stir the pot, structural solutions are clean and essentially self-executing \u2014 you break it up and walk away,\u201d he said. (Mr. Wu writes for The New York Times\u2019s opinion section.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But any breakup order would be appealed, and the higher courts today seem to echo the skepticism of the Microsoft era.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a rare unanimous decision in 2021, the Supreme Court <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/21\/us\/supreme-court-ncaa-student-athletes.html\" title=\"\">ruled that the National Collegiate Athletic Association<\/a> could not use its market power to stop payments to student-athletes. It was essentially a wage price-fixing case, decided entirely for the plaintiffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Yet Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, writing for the court, digressed to make a broader point about judicial restraint in antitrust matters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIn short,\u201d he wrote, \u201cjudges make for poor \u2018central planners\u2019 and should never aspire to the role.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a 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