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So what.

Google should be able to blacklist every conservative (or liberal) site if they feel like it. They're a private business, and we have a Constitution that prohibits would-be tyrants from interfering with free speech. Trump should be run out of town on a rail for even hinting that he'd like to undermine freedom of speech.

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It's complex because if a single corporation has a monopoly on all the news, a single company can filter all speech. There are alternatives currently but it doesn't make it less of a monopoly.

This is really simple, however: Google does not have a monopoly on news.

Maybe not about news, but what about content provided at search, and videos. Youtube and google search. Everything else is dwarfed by Google in that sense.

It still boils down to a first amendment issue: can the government tell Google what it can and can't say? If Google is using its market position illegally, that's one thing, but there's no such thing as an illegal use of its free speech rights (except as legally prohibited, e.g. libel). Google could keep a 'We think Trump is a traitor' banner on every single one of their pages and be within their rights under the Constitution.

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