Google Challenges Record EU Antitrust Fine in Court (reuters.com)

Posted by msmash on Monday September 11, 2017 @05:25AM from the fighting-back dept.

Google appealed on Monday against a record 2.4-billion-euro ($2.9 billion) EU antitrust fine, with its chances of success boosted by Intel's partial victory last week against another EU sanction. From a report: The world's most popular Internet search engine, a unit of the U.S. firm Alphabet, launched its appeal two months after it was fined by the European Commission for abusing its dominance in Europe by giving prominent placement in searches to its comparison shopping service and demoting rival offerings.

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screw Google by doctorvo · 2017-09-11 06:44 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Google supported the Democrats, Hillary Clinton, the regulatory state, and in particular, regulation of other companies and industries. They've made their political bed over the last decade, now let them lie in it. If the EU determines that Google has behaved anti-competitively, well, then Google has behaved anti-competitively and should pay the fines.