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Google stated in a Court Filing on Friday that demanding the sale of Chrome is an 'Extreme' Remedy

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It's being reported that Alphabet Inc.’s Google called a US Justice Department plan to force it to sell its web browser “extreme” and at odds with the law, urging a federal court judge to take caution lest he stifle innovation and future investment.

In a court filing late Friday, Google responded to the DOJ’s request and proposed its own remedy. The company said the proposed Chrome sale doesn’t fit the company’s conduct that the judge found illegal — which involved exclusive contracts with browsers, smartphone manufacturers and telecom carriers.

“Extreme remedies are discouraged” by courts, the company said in its filing. The remedies for anticompetitive conduct “must be of the ‘same type or class’ as the violations,” Google said.

The Justice Department and a group of States last month asked Judge Amit Mehta to order Google to sell its Chrome web browser along with a bevy of other changes to the company’s business to improve competition in the online search market.

Google’s filing Friday is its first official response since Mehta found earlier this year that it illegally monopolized online search and advertising markets. The company has said it plans to appeal, but can’t do so until after the case finishes.

The judge has scheduled a proceeding in April to decide how to fix the dearth of competition in the industries Google has dominated and promised to have a final decision by August 2025. For more, read the full Bloomberg report.

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