{"id":94838,"date":"2024-08-07T12:22:15","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=94838"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:54:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:54:20","slug":"opinion-blayne-haggart-discusses-a-u-s-courts-monopoly-ruling-against-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2024\/08\/opinion-blayne-haggart-discusses-a-u-s-courts-monopoly-ruling-against-google\/","title":{"rendered":"OPINION: Blayne Haggart discusses a U.S. court&#8217;s monopoly ruling against Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor of Political Science Blayne Haggart wrote a piece recently published in the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/commentary\/article-landmark-monopoly-ruling-against-google-vindicates-everything-ottawa\/?login=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Globe and Mail<\/a><\/em> about an American court&#8217;s finding that Google has an illegal online search monopoly and what it could mean for the Canadian government&#8217;s efforts to regulate online platforms.<\/p>\n<p>He writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The ruling reinforces what those of us who study online platforms\u00a0have always taken as a fundamental fact: The desire and ability to monopolize markets largely defines what it means to be a platform.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>More<em> concretely and closer to home, confirmation that Google is a monopoly also frames the federal government\u2019s continuing attempts to regulate social media and search engines in a new light. To be blunt, it fully vindicates the government\u2019s regulatory approach with respect to its legislation regulating\u00a0online culture,\u00a0online news\u00a0and, most recently,\u00a0online harms. If anything, this ruling suggests that Ottawa\u00a0hasn\u2019t gone far enough.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/commentary\/article-landmark-monopoly-ruling-against-google-vindicates-everything-ottawa\/?login=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Globe and Mail<\/em>\u00a0website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor of Political Science Blayne Haggart wrote a piece recently published in the Globe and Mail about an American court&#8217;s finding that Google has an illegal online search monopoly and what it could mean for the Canadian government&#8217;s efforts to regulate online platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,38],"tags":[3445,4104,522,42,31,486],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94838"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94846,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94838\/revisions\/94846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}