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US justice department officials plan to ask a judge to force

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to sell off its Chrome browser to dismantle the monopoly it has over the internet search market, in a major intervention against one of the world’s biggest tech companies.

The Department of Justice (DoJ) last month filed court papers saying it is considering enforcing “structural remedies” to prevent

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from using some its products.

The DoJ will reportedly push for

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, which is owned by Alphabet, to sell the browser and also ask a judge to require new measures related to artificial intelligence as well as its Android smartphone operating system, according to Bloomberg.

Further, competition officials, along with a number of US states that have joined the case against the Silicon Valley company, plan to recommend that federal judge Amit Mehta impose data licensing requirements.

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has said it will challenge any case by the DoJ and that proposals marked an “overreach” by the government that would harm consumers.

If Mehta accepts the proposals they could drastically reshape the global online search market, of which

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controls 90%, as well as the company’s role in the fast-growing AI sector.

The action against

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follows a court ruling in August in favour of the DoJ that found that the company had violated antitrust laws and spent billions building up an ******** monopoly.

The DoJ’s filing last month said

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’s conduct had resulted in “pernicious harms” to users, and the importance of restoring competition to a market, which was “indispensable” could not be overstated.

The case against

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was filed under the first Donald Trump administration and continued under Joe Biden.

Lee-Anne Mulholland,

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’s vice-president of regulatory affairs, said the DoJ continued to push a “******** agenda that goes far beyond the legal issues in this case”.

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“The government putting its thumb on the scale in these ways would harm consumers, developers and ********* technological leadership at precisely the moment it is most needed.”

The case has echoes of the US government’s attempt to break up

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in the 1990s in an effort to challenge its dominance over the software market.

In 2000, a judge ruled in favour of the DoJ and said the company would have to be split in two but this was successfully appealed against by

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a year later and the justice department eventually dropped its case.

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is to submit its proposed remedies by 20 December.

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