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This is a case of breaking a law where there was clear precedent set by the Microsoft case. Google decided it could get away with it or the cost was worth it. I'm glad the EU stands up to monopolistic practices and doesn't capitulate like in the US. Without large companies suppressing competition who knows how many other choices and products we would have?

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Whatever we say about the EU, it seems they’re keeping US companies in check.

Sure GDPR is vague and had Edge cases, but it’s been a huge boon to the world. Thank you EU.

They are penalizing US companies for tax avoidance, that is the root of all problems. EU as an entity, benefits very little from internet technology boom. The US companies take the revenue, disrupt traditional industries and except perhaps Amazon, they don't offer oppurtunties of employment that could give them a voice in local politics.

So all in all, the US internet companies are the pinnacle of globalist creation, or the biggest beneficiaries of such policy, and in the looming protectionist era, they will become the first sacrifice.

> keeping US companies in check

Also keeping EU companies in check :-)

If there were any EU tech companies to check, then they would be.

So according to you, there are zero European tech companies?

It was sarcasm, as the monopolies that the USA have shielded for so long, have basically killed off the IT market everywhere. There obviously are European tech companies, but even those are often owned by those US-American megacorps.

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