WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project condemned Judge Leonie M. Brinkema’s misguided decision to let Google continue operating a digital advertising monopoly that drives up the costs of everyday goods and services. Statement from Sacha Haworth, Executive Director of The Tech Oversight Project, is below: 

“It takes an Olympic level of mental gymnastics to find that Google is operating an illegal monopoly and then decide to do nothing about it. With Big Tech continuing to suffocate new and innovative businesses from gaining traction, Judge Brinkema, like Judge Mehta before her, is sending the wrong message at the wrong time. Big Tech monopolies are making our national affordability crisis even worse, and we should be denying monopolists the ill-gotten fruits of their monopolies, not rewarding them.

​“Judge Brinkema may feel that Congress, and not the courts, are the best venue to shape competition policy, but the matter at hand is about enforcing and carrying out existing laws on the books. In that regard, she failed. Brinkema and Mehta prove that the courts alone will not save us from Big Tech, and unfortunately, it’s those very same courts that have granted Big Tech the right to spend billions of dollars to block Congress from doing its job and regulating the industry.”