司法部读英语新闻 谷歌诉讼

Oct 21st 2020

IT was a long time coming. On October 20th the Department of Justice (DoJ) at last launched a federal antitrust lawsuit against Google. It is the first time American trustbusters have gone after big tech since their protracted battle against Microsoft 20 years ago. Eleven states signed on to the suit, in which the DoJ accuses the technologygiant of abusing its online-search monopoly. Others are likely to bring their own cases against the firm. William Barr, the attorney-general, called it “monumental” . He is both right and wrong.

Google and its parent company, Alphabet, are not the only ones to come under pressure. Amazon,Facebook and Apple (though not Microsoft, which has troddencarefully since its antitrust run-in)have been variously lambasted for enabling election manipulation, violating privacy and abusing their digital monopolies.

这是一个漫长的过程。 10月20日司法部(DoJ)终于对谷歌提起了联邦反垄断诉讼这是美国反垄断检察官自20年前与微软(Microsoft)旷日持久的斗争以来首次对大型科技公司展开调查。 11个州签署了该诉讼 司法部指控这家科技巨头滥用其在线搜索垄断地位。其他人可能会对该公司提起自己的诉讼。总检察长威廉•巴尔(William Barr)称之为“里程碑式的” 。他既对又错。

谷歌及其母公司Alphabet并非唯一面临压力的公司。亚马逊、 Facebook和苹果(微软除外 自从遭遇反垄断后一直小心行事)因操纵选举、侵犯隐私和滥用其数字垄断地位而受到了各种抨击。at last 最后、终于lawsuit诉讼against 针对protracted 拖延的旷日持久的trustbusters 主美反托拉斯法的执行人或机构monopoly 垄断垄断者专卖权

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