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Google Facing Billions in EU Antitrust Fines (axios.com)
Another EU antitrust fine for Google is coming down the pipe in mid-July over allegations Google has used its Android mobile operating system to beat out rivals, Reuters reports. From a report: The European Commission has been investigating the case since 2015. It's another example of how the EU takes anti-competition violations far more seriously than the U.S. In June of last year, the EU slapped Google with a record $2.8 billion fine for anti-trust practices around its search product, which they said unfairly pushed consumers to use Google's Shopping platform. Sources told Reuters they expect this new fine to top that record.
With a $2.8B fine, and another that could be higher, would it just be more profitable to stay away from the EU where they appear to keep their economy afloat via litigation (gross overgeneralization, but you know what I mean)?
Perhaps they should not have started a business in a place they where unwilling to follow the law.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
which they said unfairly pushed consumers to use Google's Shopping platform.
They have what now? As an European, this is the first time I am hearing about "google's shopping platform", ever
I'm not the biggest Google fan in the world, but if I were Google, I'd just say "ok", and turn off google entirely for EU for awhile, and see how they liked it.
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What is preventing the EU from coming up with a better: hardware combination? Better search engine? Better operating system?
Socialism.
European based companies do the exact same thing. The only reason why Google is being called down repeatedly, and this is a re-fining because Google already paid one round of fines, is because jingoism and anti-Americanism sell. It keeps the EU jobs secure when they have an enemy to point at.
If you look at europa.eu, you find that EU tends to not really bother cleaning their own house, compared to trying to clean the clock of foreign companies.
you say google fanbois.
i say i can type in a drunken search, full of typos and wrong words, and google can figure out what i'm trying to ask for.
nobody else is even remotely as functional. and they should just pull out of the EU. because this case is literal bullshit. it's their service, they can do what they want with it. you can always not use their service. it's not like a physical store, where it's the only thing in reach. or a vital service. or even something like a utility.
it's literally a search engine. use a different one if you don't like it. thanks.
Well, they seem to be just changing the laws under them over and over again...becoming more onerous each time.
Yep, companies keep doing increasingly dickish things os the EU regulations get tighter.
This is like the EU is trying to step up and dictate what a private company's business model is.
Yep the EU is dictating that being massive asshats is not a valid business model. I'm cool with that.
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