Pro-free speech video-sharing platform Rumble has initiated legal proceedings against Google and its parent body, Alphabet, alleging anti-competitive digital advertising policies that violate the Sherman Antitrust Act. “Google exploits significant conflicts of interest that stem from its multiple roles in this electronically traded marketplace,” Rumble argues in its lawsuit, filed in the Northern District of California.
“As a result, it is able to pocket a supra-competitive portion of every advertising dollar that passes through the Ad Tech markets it controls, ad-revenue that rightly should have passed through to publishers like Rumble and its content creators,” it continues, accusing Google of “exclud[ing] competition by engaging in conduct unlawful under settled antitrust precedent, including through unlawful tying arrangements, a pattern and practice of exclusionary conduct targeting actual and potential rivals.”
Rumble is seeking “injunctive relief and damages in excess of $1 billion.”
Separately, Rumble is suing Check My Ads, a tax-exempt organization it accuses of “routinely target[ing] news outlets and platforms that do not adhere to their political worldview” and defamation.
The Joe Biden regime is also suing Google under anti-trust laws for striking revenue-sharing agreements with companies like Apple, Samsung, and Mozilla to make Google the default search engine on web browsers and mobile phones. This is despite the fact that the tech giant has “utilized its power to help push to electoral victory the most liberal candidates… while targeting their opponents for censorship” in at least 41 recent elections, according to a Media Research Center (MRC) study.
More recently, Google has been censoring Donald Trump campaign ads showing life is worse for Americans under Biden.
