Essay On Google Antitrust

The tone of the article at first was hard to understand because I wasn’t sure where they stood at first. The article opened with “It’s about the consumer, stupid,” then proceeded to explain how Google often beats out their competitor whenever they enter into a new market. Since it’s an article about antitrust, I thought they would be against Google annihilating their competition but the more I read Huffington Post’s main argument was that Google win at everything they do because they always do a better job. This makes sense how “it’s about the consumer.” What’s wrong with Google being ahead when customers obvious enjoy their products more than anything being offered?
Google has been under a lot of fire through antitrust investigation by the Federal Trade Commission, for breaching clauses of the Sherman act which has been interpreted, by courts, to be that: “the law directs itself not against conduct which is competitive, even severely so, but against conduct which unfairly tends …show more content…
With the antitrust investigations on Google, the FTC probably are listening to the whistle blowing by losing companies because they are fallen behind. If I were the director of the FTC I would actively encourage Google to keep expanding and providing such cheap resources to consumers. Take for instance Google Fiber, the fiber optic internet service that will be a fraction of the charge of cable. This has been lobbied by companies like Cox for the past several years because they believe Google will destroy competition. I understand why Cox has a semi-monopoly because cable internet requires much infrastructure, but given the circumstance I believe that I have little choice in my internet provider and am discontent with their service. I believe we should allow for any company to enter into markets and dominate as long as their products are what consumers are in favor