By Cliff Potts, WPS News


July 26, 2025 — Manila, Philippines — Google isn’t just a search engine anymore. It’s an empire—one built on surveillance, manipulation, monopolistic behavior, and the slow suffocation of every competitor it couldn’t buy, steal from, or bury. The U.S. government is finally catching up, but make no mistake: the tech giant’s unchecked dominance should have triggered alarms a decade ago.

Right now, Google is facing two major antitrust lawsuits by the U.S. Department of Justice. The first, which zeroes in on its stranglehold on search and search advertising, argues that Google’s billion-dollar default deals—like the one with Apple—make it virtually impossible for any alternative search engine to gain a foothold. That trial wrapped last year, and we’re now on the edge of a ruling. Early signs say the court will side with DOJ. That alone is a bombshell.

But wait, there’s more. A second DOJ case filed in 2023 hits Google where it really hurts: digital advertising. This is where the real corruption lives. Google isn’t just the middleman—it’s the auctioneer, the buyer, the seller, and the judge of what gets shown and where. It’s a rigged casino, and everyone but Google is the sucker at the table. The feds want Google to divest its ad business. They should go further: rip it apart and salt the earth.

Let’s be honest. Google’s business model is data colonization. Every search, every click, every “OK Google”—it’s all surveillance. Their tools aren’t free—they’re bait. And the price is your freedom to choose, to know, to think outside their curated algorithms. They’ve annihilated local journalism by cornering ad revenue, muzzled independent voices with ever-changing SEO rules, and forced creators into a platform plantation on YouTube.

This is no longer capitalism. It’s corporate authoritarianism with a clean UI.

Across the world, regulators are stepping in. The European Union fined Google billions for Android and AdSense abuse. India slapped them with a penalty. But these are rounding errors for a trillion-dollar beast. Fines aren’t enough. Fines are permission slips. What we need is dismantlement—radical, public, and permanent.

If Google controls your search, your ads, your email, your browser, your phone, and your video content—what don’t they control? Your thoughts? Your choices? Your reality?

It’s time to say it plainly: Google is a monopoly. Google is a manipulator. Google is a menace.

Break it up. Burn it down. Reclaim the internet.

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