Discuss how the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 and the government’s historical antitrust actions against monopoly technology companies relate to the current antitrust cases against Google. Suggested questions to consider when researching writing your paper include:
What laws are allegedly being broken?
Why is the case being brought–what specific anti-competitive practices are being alleged against Google?
What “harms” are Google’s alleged anti-competitive practices creating to users, competitors, to the market, etc.?
What other companies are complicit in Google’s anti-competitive practices?
How does this case fit into or compare with the historical pattern of the growth of technology companies and the constitutive choices made to limit their anticompetitive practices and market dominance when they get too big (such as AT&T and Microsoft)?
What specifically should be done, if anything, to restrain Google’s alleged monopoly power?
Based on past precedents we just studied about the cases against AT&T and Microsoft, what do you think the likely outcome of this case will be?