{"id":941411,"date":"2025-06-26T07:20:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T01:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=941411"},"modified":"2025-06-26T07:37:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T02:07:20","slug":"uk-politics-blunts-antitrust-action-against-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/26\/uk-politics-blunts-antitrust-action-against-google\/","title":{"rendered":"UK politics blunts antitrust action against Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s competition regulator has finally come up with a plan to control Google&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s competition regulator has finally come up with a plan to control Google&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}