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Justice Department files antitrust lawsuit against Apple over its infamous ‘walled garden’

Mariella Moon · Lawrence Bonk | Engadget — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:42:47 +0000

It’s the latest antitrust lawsuit against the biggest players in the tech industry.

The US Department of Justice and more than a dozen states have filed a lawsuit against Apple in federal court, accusing it of violating antitrust laws by making its hardware and software products largely inaccessible to competitors. Apple’s “walled garden” approach to business, as it’s so often called, makes it difficult for rivals to compete and for customers to switch to other companies’ products. The lawsuit comes on the heels of the European Commission slapping Apple with a €1.8 billion ($1.95 billion) fine. Apple, the commission concluded, prevented music streaming developers from “informing iOS users about alternative and cheaper music subscription services available” outside the App Store.

“Apple undermines apps, products, and services that would otherwise make users less reliant on the iPhone,” Attorney General Merrick Garland wrote in a press release published by CNN. “Apple exercises its monopoly power to extract more money from consumers, developers, content creators, artists, publishers, small businesses, and merchants, among others.”

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Source: https://www.engadget.com/justice-department-files-antitrust-lawsuit-against-apple-over-its-infamous-walled-garden-144834571.html

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What Google has to prove in the first major antitrust case in decades

Ananya Bhattacharya | QUARTZ — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 16:28:26 +0000

Decades after IBM and Microsoft, Google becomes the rare tech giant to be prosecuted in wide and sweeping antitrust action

Starting tomorrow (Sep. 12), Google, the world’s most-used search engine, has to prove that it is not using its pole position in the sector to cannibalize its competition.

In October 2020, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) filed a civil antitrust suit against Google for monopolizing search and search advertising. Two months later, the attorneys general of 35 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Guam, filed a separate complaint. These cases have now been combined.

At the trial, which is expected to last 10 weeks, Google’s “exclusive dealing arrangements” with the likes of Apple and Samsung will be under scrutiny, as will Google’s habit of preloading its services on Android devices.

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Source: https://qz.com/what-google-has-to-prove-in-the-first-major-antitrust-c-1850824213

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‘Trusted News Initiative’ Antitrust Litigation

Children's Health Defense — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 22:36:45 +0000

CHD has filed a first-in-the-country antitrust lawsuit against members of the “Trusted News Initiative” (“TNI”) for collusively censoring online news.

The TNI is a self-proclaimed “industry partnership” formed around 2020, joining together some of the world’s largest legacy news organizations, such as The Washington Post, the Associated Press, Reuters, and its founder, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) with all the biggest Big Tech platforms including Facebook, Google, Twitter, Microsoft. The TNI exists to, in its own words, “choke off” and “stamp out” online news reporting that the TNI or any of its members peremptorily deems “misinformation.” TNI members have targeted and suppressed completely accurate online reporting by non-mainstream news publishers concerning both COVID-19 (on matters including treatments, immunity, lab leak, vax injury, and lockdowns/mandates) and U.S. elections (such as the Hunter Biden laptop story).

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Source: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/legal_justice/trusted-news-initiative-antitrust-litigation/

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