Google versus the USA: the company’s harsh reaction to the sale of Chrome

The dispute between the US Department of Justice and Google, which wants to force the Mountain View company to sell Chromiumto break its monopoly was met with a sharp response from Google in an official statement.

“The Department of Justice has decided to advance a radical interventionist agenda that will harm Americans and America’s global technological leadership. The DOJ’s overbroad proposal goes far beyond the Court’s decision. “This will destroy a number of Google products, even outside of search, that people love and find useful in their daily lives,” Google says.

Google’s arguments for why selling Chrome is harmful

Google also established what users and the United States as a whole would lose if the US Department of Justice’s commitment was implemented.

• Put the security and privacy of millions of Americans at risk and undermine the quality of the products people love by forcing the sale of Chrome and possibly Android.
• Require disclosure to unknown foreign and domestic companies of not only Google’s innovations and results, but, even more alarmingly, Americans’ personal search queries.
• Let’s cool our investment in artificial intelligence, perhaps the most important innovation of our time, with Google playing a leading role.
• Harming innovative services like Mozilla’s Firefox, whose business depends on charging Google for search placement.
• Deliberately limiting people’s access to Google search.
• Tackle government micromanagement of Google search and other technologies by appointing a “Technical Committee” with enormous power over your online experience.

Google’s final response to the Department of Justice is very blunt:

“The Justice Department’s approach will result in unprecedented government intervention that will harm American consumers, developers and small businesses and threaten America’s global economic and technological leadership at a time when it is needed most.”