The following statement from the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) regarding the start of the remedy phase in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) lawsuit against Google Search, urges the court to reject the extreme remedies proposed by the DOJ that threaten to undercut American innovation and harm consumers can be attributed to Chris Mohr, President.
The extreme remedies that the DOJ is asking the court to consider in this case would do little to resolve the questions at the heart of the case. Instead, the DOJ’s proposed remedies make what in our view was a bad merits decisions substantially worse: they will harm consumers, create a less dynamic marketplace, and discourage innovation. These undermine long-established antitrust principles in a way that hurts consumers, U.S. economic interests, and global American technological leadership. DOJ’s remedies would create massive privacy and cybersecurity exposure to users by forcing Google to share users’ search data with its competitors. And the government would punish Google for building a successful product that people actually like by making it harder for users to access Google Search and kneecapping Google’s ability to continue to innovate and improve Search. We hope the court will take these broader implications of the proposed remedies into consideration when crafting its decision.
