{"id":36138,"date":"2021-06-08T19:34:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T02:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36138"},"modified":"2021-06-08T19:34:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T02:34:34","slug":"ohio-files-lawsuit-to-declare-google-a-public-utility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36138","title":{"rendered":"Ohio files lawsuit to declare Google a public utility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio Attorney General\u00a0Dave Yost\u00a0(R) on Tuesday filed a lawsuit asking the court to declare Google a public utility, which would subject the Silicon Valley giant to government regulation.<\/p>\n<p>Yost\u2019s complaint, filed in Delaware County Court, alleges Google has used its dominance as a search engine to prioritize its own products over \u201corganic search results\u201d in a way that \u201cintentionally disadvantages competitors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoogle uses its dominance of internet search to steer Ohioans to Google\u2019s own products&#8211;that&#8217;s discriminatory and anti-competitive,\u201d Yost said in a statement. \u201cWhen you own the railroad or the electric company or the cellphone tower, you have to treat everyone the same and give everybody access.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ohio is the first state to bring such a lawsuit against Google, but it adds to a growing list of antitrust battles the tech giant is facing.<\/p>\n<p>A Google spokesperson said Yost\u2019s lawsuit would \u201cmake Google Search results worse and make it harder for small businesses to connect directly with customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\":ow\" class=\"pG\" role=\"img\" data-tooltip-contained=\"true\" data-tooltip-align=\"b,l\" data-tooltip-delay=\"1500\" aria-label=\"Not important\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio Attorney General\u00a0Dave Yost\u00a0(R) on Tuesday&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36139,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36138\/revisions\/36139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}