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If the EU can fine Apple and Google, the US should be able to fine Novo.

If they have a case against them under US law, sure! Do they?

Why? EU have never gone after Apple or Google because of their prices. This isn't Apple. Novo Nordisk doesn't make medicine that only work if your other medicine is made by them or force you to use their payment card (?!?!?).

If your point is the price then the US could go after every single US medicine company.

Absolutely they should.

That point is a bit different than comparing to Apple and Google.

I didn’t raise it.

> If the EU can fine Apple and Google, the US should be able to fine Novo.

So what did you mean by that?

That's against US law. The US has innovated the laws that make NN profits possible and helped other countries to adopt them.

EU created anti trust laws that makes fining Apple and Google possible.

Citations for all of this please.

US laws prioritize corporations over people.

EU laws prioritize people over corporations.

So EU corps selling in the US can bleed their customers dry, just like the local US corps.

And US corps operating in the EU are restricted in the people's interest, just like the local EU corps.

This is the just application of the respective laws as they stand.

This is the outcome the respective populations voted for.

Although the rest of the world does wonder what the US voters were thinking ...

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