Speaking of big government, the Feds just won’t leave Google alone. The latest harassment comes from the DOJ which lost in court its last clash with the world’s search engine leader (which, as a reminder, is FREE) but is now back in court pushing for a judge to order Google to divest its advertising platform.

The Justice Department has asked [Judge] Brinkema to order Google to divest the advertising exchange, known as AdX, that connects buyers and sellers of ads. The legal bar for ordering a company to sell off a business, even to address anticompetitive conduct, is exceptionally high.

“Nothing short of structural change–an AdX divestiture–is sufficient to enable meaningful change,” Justice Department lawyer Julia Tarver Wood said…

Karen Dunn, a lawyer for Google, said divestiture would be an overreach that would remove Google from the advertising-exchange business completely.

Google already faces intense competition in advertising from Amazon, and new AI entrants could leave them both in the dust.

We understand why left-wing radicals in the Biden administration wanted to break up Google – they hate all large, successful companies.

But Trump has declared many times that the government should be protecting our “great and dominant Tech companies,” yet his own Justice Department is doing exactly the opposite – much to the delight of China.