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The EU Has a Plan To Break Up Google
An anonymous reader points out a report at the Financial Times (paywalled) which says the European Parliament is preparing to call for the break-up of Google. According to the draft seen by the FT, a potential solution to ongoing anti-trust concerns with Google is "unbundling search engines from other services." The article notes, "The European parliament has no formal power to split up companies, but has increasing influence on the commission, which initiates all EU legislation. The commission has been investigating concerns over Google’s dominance of online search for five years, with critics arguing that the company’s rankings favour its own services, hitting its rivals’ profits. Unbundling cannot be excluded, said Andreas Schwab, a German MEP who is one of the motion’s backers."
Google is where it is because a lot of companies are run by boards that are more interested in feathering their own nests instead of what they largely give lip-service to - "innovation"
Not only that, but the EUSSR doesn't seem to understand that an American corporation has nothing to do with European communists.
They should go and re-read their history books and remember how close all of Europe was to speaking either German or Russian.
I'm not a complete idiot... Some parts are missing.
It actually hurt my brain to read your reply.
My point is that the EU is a bunch of arrogant idiots who have no business telling an American company to split up.
I'm not a complete idiot... Some parts are missing.
If Google is an EU corporation EU will not do _anything_ to Google
EU doesn't care if Google is a monopoly or not - they only use "monopoly" as an excuse to do what they do
What EU really wants to achieve is to break America, starting by breaking American corporations, corporations such as Google
And if they can do Google in, Apple will be next
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Like it or not, idiots or not, they do have such business, simply because your poor little "american company" is no such thing. It's an international corporation that was once founded in america, but now does business all over the world, including within the EU and actually quite a lot of it.
Fine, have it your way. Doesn't matter for the purpose of the discussion. Let's assume it is a worldwide company with no particular headquarters.
What is happening here is that a bunch of politicians are interfering in the legitimate business of a private enterprise. Not as a result of violating any laws (there are criminal courts for that), but as a direct result of the success of the company. That smells like what Mother Russia did with Gazprom and is one of the big reasons why I've started to hate the EU so much that I chose to leave it.
Oh and btw, modding me a troll just because you disagree with my opinion makes you a bad mod.
I'm not a complete idiot... Some parts are missing.
They should go and re-read their history books and remember how close all of Europe was to speaking either German or Russian.
Funny historic fact: The USA was one vote away from speaking German. :-)
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