Dallas Morning News Op-Ed: Lessons from Google ruling: Attacking innovation doesn’t protect consumers

In the wake of a recent ruling in the long-running antitrust suit against Google’s search platform, state attorneys general of both parties and the federal government have learned at least two valuable lessons. 

First, companies cannot be forced to sell off certain parts of their business if they cause no actual harm to consumers, even if it is politically popular. Second, time proves to be the ultimate remedy, especially in a free market driven by robust competition among artificial intelligence platforms.

But the most important lesson they should have learned is that competition policy and enforcement should be focused on protecting consumers, not recklessly breaking up companies and products in industries that are constantly innovating for the benefit of the public.

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