An anti-monopoly group whose founder is working with Joe Biden’s transition
team says that the Biden administration should expand antitrust cases against Google
and Facebook. The group is named as The American Economic
Liberties Project.
The recommendations offered by the group indicate how the Biden administration’s future policy-making is likely to be influenced. The group encouraged that the US Justice Department must make its stance clear on the antitrust action against Google by expanding the scope of litigation beyond search to other services offered by the company, including maps, travel and app store. The US Justice Department had sued the tech giant in October last year over dominating search and advertising.
Now the Biden administration is being pressured to appoint strict
Justice Department and FTC antitrust enforcers, while Biden’s attorney general
nominee, Merrick Garland, is being urged to seek breakup of Google.
Sarah Miller, the founder of the group said that the group is
attempting to lay out a clear roadmap that the new administration can rally around
and use it for “not only what’s possible but what’s necessary.”
The report generated by the group further states that
antitrust agencies must challenge mergers involving a powerful buyer and that regulators
must stop entering settlements with companies that do not require them to admit
wrongdoing.
