Antitrust Remedies Against Google

It Has to Be Big

The company now known as Alphabet has changed its motto from, “Don’t be Evil,” to, “Be Evil.”   Along with that, they have engaged in a whole range of monopolistic behaviors in furtherance of their new purpose.

Along the way, they have also systematically destroyed evidence, so the DoJ has proposed a broad range of remedies.

Honestly, I think that senior executives should be frog marched out of their offices in handcuffs, but that has not happened since the 1960s, even though the antitrust criminal conspiracy statutes remain on the book.

Even that is not enough, we need to make sure that the sanctions are severe enough, and shocking enough, to deter future monopoly criminals.

This cannot be allowed to simply be a cost of doing business.

I have been thinking about this, and I have come up with a solution that radical enough, and painful enough, to deter would be monopolists for decades.

Here it is:

Google should be sold to Broadcom.

I can think of no sanction that would do more to prevent future bad behavior.

That is all.