{"id":14950,"date":"2024-10-15T21:02:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T21:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=14950"},"modified":"2024-10-18T17:23:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T17:23:03","slug":"trump-signals-skepticism-of-google-breakup-citing-competition-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=14950","title":{"rendered":"Trump Signals Skepticism of Google Breakup, Citing Competition With China"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former President Donald J. Trump, whose administration sued Google over allegations it violated antitrust law, indicated that he might not break up the company if he regained the presidency, describing it as a bulwark against China\u2019s technology ambitions.<\/p>\n

\u201cChina is afraid of Google,\u201d Mr. Trump said while speaking on Tuesday at an event<\/a> with Bloomberg News during a meeting of the Economic Club of Chicago. He questioned whether a corporate split might \u201cdestroy the company,\u201d though he added that he was not a fan of Google.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat you can do without breaking it up is make sure it\u2019s more fair,\u201d Mr. Trump said.<\/p>\n

The remarks signaled a different approach from the former president on antitrust action against Google, which makes the world\u2019s most popular search engine. Just last month, Mr. Trump said he would prosecute Google for showing \u201cbad stories\u201d<\/a> about him.<\/p>\n

A federal judge issued a landmark ruling in August that the company illegally maintained a monopoly in search<\/a>. The Justice Department said last week that it was considering making an argument to that judge that Google should be broken up<\/a> as a punishment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Google declined to comment on Mr. Trump\u2019s remarks. It has argued that a breakup could hurt America\u2019s interests in a heated geopolitical competition with China over dominance in areas like artificial intelligence, a point that Mr. Trump echoed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a very dangerous thing, because we want to have great companies,\u201d he said. \u201cWe don\u2019t want China to have these companies.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Justice Department\u2019s antitrust investigation into Google started under Mr. Trump in 2019. In 2020, weeks before the presidential election, the agency sued the company<\/a>, arguing that it had illegally maintained a monopoly in the online search business by paying companies like Apple and Samsung to be the automatic search engine on smartphones and web browsers.<\/p>\n

While Mr. Trump did not specify how he would approach the thorny question of what to do with Google, he said that the company\u2019s search engine was \u201crigged\u201d because it presented only negative stories about him and that he needed do \u201csomething.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI called the head of Google the other day and I said, \u2018I\u2019m getting a lot of good stories lately, but you don\u2019t find them in Google,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201c\u2018I think it\u2019s a whole rigged deal. I think Google is rigged just like our government is rigged all over the place.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr. Trump spoke to Sundar Pichai, Google\u2019s chief executive, according to a person with knowledge of the conversation who was not authorized to discuss it.<\/p>\n

Mr. Pichai told Mr. Trump that \u201cyou\u2019re the No. 1 person on all of Google for stories,\u201d Mr. Trump recalled on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of them are bad stories,\u201d he said, \u201cbut these are minor details, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former President Donald J. Trump, whose administration sued Google over allegations it violated antitrust law, indicated that he might not break up the company if he regained the presidency, describing it as a bulwark against China\u2019s technology ambitions.\u201cChina is afraid of Google,\u201d Mr. Trump said while speaking on Tuesday at an event with Bloomberg News during a meeting of the Economic Club of Chicago. He questioned whether a corporate split might \u201cdestroy the company,\u201d though he added that he was not a fan of Google.\u201cWhat you can do without breaking it up is make sure it\u2019s more fair,\u201d Mr. Trump said.The remarks signaled a different approach from the former president on antitrust action against Google, which makes the world\u2019s most popular search engine. Just last month, Mr. Trump said he would prosecute Google for showing \u201cbad stories\u201d about him.A federal judge issued a landmark ruling in August that the company illegally maintained a monopoly in search. The Justice Department said last week that it was considering making an argument to that judge that Google should be broken up as a punishment.Google declined to comment on Mr. Trump\u2019s remarks. It has argued that a breakup could hurt America\u2019s interests in a heated geopolitical competition with China over dominance in areas like artificial intelligence, a point that Mr. Trump echoed on Tuesday.\u201cIt\u2019s a very dangerous thing, because we want to have great companies,\u201d he said. \u201cWe don\u2019t want China to have these companies.\u201dThe Justice Department\u2019s antitrust investigation into Google started under Mr. Trump in 2019. In 2020, weeks before the presidential election, the agency sued the company, arguing that it had illegally maintained a monopoly in the online search business by paying companies like Apple and Samsung to be the automatic search engine on smartphones and web browsers.While Mr. Trump did not specify how he would approach the thorny question of what to do with Google, he said that the company\u2019s search engine was \u201crigged\u201d because it presented only negative stories about him and that he needed do \u201csomething.\u201d\u201cI called the head of Google the other day and I said, \u2018I\u2019m getting a lot of good stories lately, but you don\u2019t find them in Google,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201c\u2018I think it\u2019s a whole rigged deal. I think Google is rigged just like our government is rigged all over the place.\u2019\u201dMr. Trump spoke to Sundar Pichai, Google\u2019s chief executive, according to a person with knowledge of the conversation who was not authorized to discuss it.Mr. Pichai told Mr. Trump that \u201cyou\u2019re the No. 1 person on all of Google for stories,\u201d Mr. Trump recalled on Tuesday.\u201cMost of them are bad stories,\u201d he said, \u201cbut these are minor details, right?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14952,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14953,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14950\/revisions\/14953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}