The EU's Digital Markets Act is a necessary corrective force against Big Tech's stranglehold on digital markets. Google has leveraged its dominance to self-preference its own services and lock out competitors, and the DMA's non-compliance investigations into Google Search and Google Play are long overdue. Forcing Google to share search data on fair terms levels the playing field and gives rival search engines a real shot at competing.
Forcing Google to hand over ranking, query, click and view data to competitors isn't fair competition — it's regulatory overreach that punishes a company for building a better product. The DMA essentially mandates that Google subsidize rivals by sharing the very data infrastructure it spent decades developing. A binding decision due by July 2026 could set a dangerous precedent that stifles innovation across the entire digital economy.
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