Tech antitrust is about to get really weird

240.362 - 260.092 Nilay Patel

Not because it believes Google has behaved anti-competitively, but to punish Google for its perceived control over speech, which is something conservatives truly hate. There's a lot going on here and a lot of open questions. Big tech companies would love to believe that we're heading into an era of less antitrust enforcement, a blind eye to big deals and back to business as usual.