Ohio Sues To Have Google Declared A Public Utility

Ohio Attorney General has sued the tech giant -declaring them a public utility, the power big tech has over most Americans and more – via ‘Wake Up America’ on Newsmax.
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NDTV:

San Francisco: The state of Ohio on Tuesday filed an unprecedented lawsuit calling on a local court to declare Google as much a public utility as an electric company.

Google should be designated a public utility subject to government regulation regarding its search engine and other services, Ohio attorney general Dave Yost contended in the legal filing.

Public utilities typically supply essential goods or services, such as water or power, and tend to have naturally monopolistic characteristics.

“When you own the railroad or the electric company or the cellphone tower, you have to treat everyone the same and give everybody access,” Yost said in a release announcing the suit.

Yost accused Google of favoring its own products, websites, and services in search results, putting competitors at a disadvantage. more