The federal ruling against Google is a positive step because the company operates as multiple monopolies that should be broken up.

“Google clearly is a monopoly. In fact, it's at least two or three monopolies. They have monopoly in search, they have monopoly in advertising and they at least have a dominant position in video with YouTube. And I think that it would be great if the government broke up this company.”

Luke supports the DOJ lawsuit, as he finds Apple's lack of interoperability, such as the Apple Watch only working with iPhones, to be spiteful and intentionally anti-competitive.

“the fact that I can't alter what the long presses of the stems do unless I buy an iPhone and connect it to an iPhone um that's really bad the fact that I cannot update the firmware in in any way without a Bluetooth connection to an iPhone is that that's just they just obviously hate their users it's”

The DOJ is approximately 10 years late in its antitrust challenge against Google, and they should have simply blocked the DoubleClick acquisition in 2008.

“This just feels like they are maybe 10 years behind they should have just blocked the double click you know acquisition in 2008 and this consolidation of power”

Breaking up Google's ad-tech monopoly via a forced sale is likely necessary to foster competition on the open web.

“The DOJ argued on Friday, nothing short of a forced sale would bring a brighter, more competitive future for the open web. I mean, essentially, this is Google's vig all ad sales for almost every website that uses for every website that uses Google ads and almost every website uses Google ads.”

Antitrust enforcement is essential for democracy as it protects people from the arbitrary exercise of private economic power.

“if you allow bullying and coercion to be okay in our economic realm that's really going to undermine people's experience of freedom and liberty right and so the principles of antitrust and anti-monopoly are actually foundational to our country as a democracy”

Antitrust policy has failed because regulators allowed mergers that created monopolies under the false belief that these monopolies were efficient.

“every DOJ and every FTC from Reagan until Biden waved through pretty much every merger that came before them because monopolies were efficient.”

The lack of antitrust enforcement has allowed media to become consolidated under billionaire interests, which undermines the public's ability to access the truth.

“You think about all the antitrust laws that have been kind of getting out since the Reagan years. And you're like, this is why we had them. So, that you couldn't have one billionaire and his billionaire friends buying all of your media and then telling you what the truth is.”