The persecution of Google for antitrust violations is an unabashed attack on success. Having risen to the top of the technology industry, the company is now a target for the envious and mediocre.
A chief complaint against Google is that its algorithms and data accumulation give it an unfair competitive advantage. In other words, because the company has continually improved how it accumulates and disseminates information, it is now engaged in anti-competitive actions. Google has gotten very good at what it does, and that, we are to believe, is somehow unjust.
Google doesn’t and can’t force anyone to use its services. It has been successful because it offers services that individuals and businesses want. And lest we forget, many of those services (such as gmail, Maps, Docs, and search) are free. Google has become an incredibly valuable company by creating and then giving away a vast array of values.
Certainly, Google has advantages over competitors. But it has earned those advantages by improving and expanding its capabilities. It has done what no other company has ever done, and for that, they are now one of the favorite whipping boys for Leftists and conservatives alike.
A company that has been in business for more than twenty years will have resources and expertise that a startup won’t have. This isn’t anti-competitive. It is simply a fact of business. But its resources and expertise are among the primary complaints against Google.
Google has been immensely successful. And that is why the antitrust goons have been unleashed on the company.