UK politics blunts antitrust action against Google
Britain’s competition regulator has finally come up with a plan to control Google’s huge search business, but a shift in the political wind in favour of big tech and the money it invests makes it more of a bark than a bite.
The Competition and Markets Authority spent years setting up a regime to intervene in the operations of tech giants such as Google, Apple and Amazon, saying it needed special expertise and powers to drive competition in the digital economy.
