The EU is already finding new ways to pay for itself

It would be funny if google refused to pay and started with drawing all google maps, chrome browser, google search, google translation from the hague and known EU government buildings/ IP addresses.

I'd like to see a next generation tech company vs. country fight

>>131500009
It would be funny, but it won't happen. The EU is Google's biggest cashcow, even more important than its homemarket, Burgerland.

Look it up.

Google will just appeal this judgement for the next 5-7 yrs until the aliens land.

>>131499785
better them than me at least, you supported the death of the west Google now enjoy the destruction that comes along it yourself

>>131499785

Fuck Jewgle why would you think us burgers care? Fine them for every penny and kill them all. They deserve it for working with Clinton.

>>131499785

Well somebody has to play slavs their gibs now that we've lost the UK

>>131499785
no wont happen much

BUT what will happen is that they are given other option, option far more profitable for the EU and that is complete cooperation between EU and google to brainwash as much as possible to make inviduals to believe socialism is okay

>>131499785
Google is a big supporter of globalism they should be proud to pay this fine.

Trade war now?

US will just hit VW or Deutsche Bank with the 2 billion fine back.

So what happens if Google just ignores this?

>>131501296
Krauts start googling their laws...

>>131500863
It was one of our former ministers that sued them, kek.

>>131499785
Google is a private company. I see absolutely nothing wrong with plugging their own products. If people do not like it, they should stop using the services that google provides for them. The EU busy body's should just neck themselves.

>>131501532
Every sane country has monopoly laws.

>>131501532
Sort of this, but I also hate google and don't give two fucks about them. So. Naah. Fuck em.

I imagine the people at Google saw this and laughed.

>>131499785
Uber when?
there's no way this shit is legal with the current working laws in Europe.
It's not just Uber, but the users should technically be registered as temp worker and deserve unemployment benefits among other things, that I'm sure Uber doesn't pay for at the moment. And that's without taking into account the fact it's illegal to work as a taxi without a license that cost around 100K euros there

>>131500009
>Giant american company gives the EU an excuse to replace itself with its own giant companies

The US government would never allow google to do it.

>>131500227

>The EU is Google's biggest cashcow

I doubt that if you start leeching huge bills from them for your migrant addiction. They're just going to tell you to fuck off.

Sort yourselves our Germans, this addiction is going to kill you.

>>131501532
Except google tools are used by other sites that don't tell you you are spied in the process.
google adds aren't just picture, they also sniff retrieve the IP without any ask to you.
The fact google basically consider their partners customers/users as their own is totally illegal, as contracts can't really jump a layer of users like that.

>>131500009
this. They should totally do it. What the EU is doing is legalized racketeering

>>131501222
We already started years ago, with Dieselgate.

>>131499785
>US charging insane amounts of money from european companies for bad practice is okay
>Europe doing it one time is totally not okay

>>131501741
I am aware of that, but i should assume that people are smart enough to make an intelligent decision, based on information they gathered for themselves. /sarc

It´s time to pay Donald!

>>131501532
of course there is nothing wrong with plugging your own products. The EU knows that muh market dominance abuse intervention is a flimsy illusion of moral highground they need to racketeer the crap out of Google

>>131501896
Agreed.

>>131501609
They're appealing it though.

>>131499785

Google loves to tout your multi culti horse shit and support anti-American and global initiatives so have a field day Hans. You're just removing shitty politicians from our soil in effect.

>>131501867

>mfw when you think a hardboiled leftist commune like Google and the Donald are anything alike.

>>131501605
Monopoly laws have at least some sense to them when they're regarding some kind of scarce resource. For example, if a massive oil company simply buys out every new oil discovery, no smaller startup could ever accumulate enough oil to compete in terms of sales or quantity.

The internet, however, is not a scarce resource, and as such, trust-busting laws regarding internet companies make virtually no sense.

>>131499785
>I am 100% for this.
>Flag
Checks out

>>131502099

This isn't what monopoly laws are about. Monopolies are bad for business, that's the simple gist of it. Got nothing to do with scarcity, but rather with one single entity controlling an entire business..

>>131502055
It's time to pay Donald!

>>131500009
I don't know I feel like this is a easy way for Google to give the eu money. It's pretty obvious google has the same type of agenda

>case 1: google gives EU billions of dollars for no reason.
>what the heck is google is doing? this is really fishy

>case 2: google "breaks" some EU law and it's fined by billions
>well they have to pay for their crimes

I don't know, maybe I'm getting too paranoid but I think it could be a easy way to do transactions that could be otherwise illegal.

>>131502146
So, you're on Googles side huh? Fucking traitor.

>>131502210
This. Best answer in thread.

You know eastern europe will chimpout without euro moneys. Eu cannot exploit them anymore without gibs.

>>131502099
>The internet, however, is not a scarce resource, and as such, trust-busting laws regarding internet companies make virtually no sense.
well said

>>131502210
damnit he's right

>>131499785
Americans will pay

And if they don't we'll make them

>>131502210
damn, that's a good one

>>131502416
We'll get those white scums!

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>You cannot use your own platform to advertise your new products

Wow, this solves SO MANY problems for the citizens! Can't wait to move to France and start a tech company. Thank you based EU.

what has google done in the past 10 years?

this is amazon's world now.

>>131499785
Dude, you think 2 billion are a significant amount for an entire continent?
The USA alone moves 15 trillion every year.

>>131499785

>Google turns off all support for the E.U.

What next?

Will this be Webcrawlers return to heavily censored glory?

>>131501222

Google hates the U.S. though. So it's kind of weird.

>>131499785
unironically the only good part about the EU, they're keeping big multinationals in check.

>>131502210
I doubt it. The EU is notorious for trying to shake down American tech giants. I don't have a source but I remember reading about how they tried to apply a tariff to Google that was so ridiculous the US government flat out told them Google would not pay

>late Soviet delirium stage
>check

>>131501532

The U.S. did this to Microsoft back when I was a kid.

>>131501622

I drive for Uber occasionally. Here in Australia it just occupies a completely random, grey area. The government is really screwing the Uber drivers while allowing Uber the comapny to get rich.

They want their cash, but they're scared to press Uber for it, so they just tax people earning less than minimum wage like 45% tax rates.

>>131499785
Good, but this is probably political pressure to make them regulate hate speech more.

>>131502099

The Microsoft ruling always sat wrongly with me for this.

Basically;

>We know people have the option to use other operating systems...but they don't want to. So you have to share it with random other companies.

google manipulated results for hillary

this is sweet, sweet karma.

>>131502204
How is this fine breaking or even threatening google's monopoly?

Holy shit you're deluded. This is a money shake, but the EU is doing absolutely nothing to nurture competition, all the opposite. Arbitrary laws such as this scare away investing.

>>131503102
The fine is just there to discourage further behaviour. The ruling dictates that Google must change their service in such a way that their own services aren't preferred in searches, or something along these lines.

The fine is really just a footnote in the ruling.

>>131502939
Whose computer is it, anyway?

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>>131502939
> Neelie Kroes was appointed the European Commissioner for Competition; one of her first tasks was to oversee the fining brought onto Microsoft. Kroes has stated she believes open standards and open source are preferable to anything proprietary

>European Commissioner for Competition
>believes open standards and open source are preferable to anything proprietary

>>131499785
And then companies adapt and stop getting fines or choose to abort the region completely and they'll come back to tax our asses

Germany deserves the noose

>>131503322
>believes open standards and open source are preferable to anything proprietary
Do you even lift? There's plenty of competition out there, nigger. It's just not monetary like your ecuckonomics 101 class believes is the only kind.

>>131503438
what did you mean by this

Start the hashtag: #EUGoogle
Get others aware, and get the EU to stop what they are doing.

>>131503100
>manipulate results for hillary
>get caught
>hillary loses

>Release a refugees are super good and always women video
>Most disliked video in the history of youtube
>Millions of people commenting against it and dropping redpills for every normie to see

Do you honestly think Google didn't foresee these consequences? That they made a mistake?

Either they are with us, or they're the biggest useful idiots we could have as our opponents.

>>131503307
You didn't answer my question. How does this prevent google from having a monopoly?

The only thing laws like these accomplish is that any European with an idea will go to the US and develop it there instead. Why would anyone want to expose their ideas and livelihood to these arbitrary stupidly unnecessary regulations?

>>131503322
Adding, fuck muh interlectural propertah rents. The competition worth enabling is downstream, where people who use the software make stuff.

>>131503489
Browsers, for one thing. Firefox v. WebKit.
Operating systems. Linux v. BSDs v. Android v. Tizen.
GUI frameworks. wxWidgets v. GTK v. Qt
Desktop app frameworks. Chrome apps v. Electron
Web app frameworks. Too many to list
All of which drive the state of the art forward and allow their users to put together useful systems with less effort and expense than would otherwise be the case, so that *they* can compete with one another in providing real services instead of collecting rents.

>>131499785
I hope Google shuts off service to every EU nation. Serve you right for defying our new A.I. overlords

>>131503592
>How does this prevent google from having a monopoly?

It doesn't, it can't, and wasn't designed to do that. Monopoly laws can not prohibit monopolies, it can only restrict acts of monopoly abuse. Don't they teach you anything at school any more?

>>131502210

What a devious monkey you are.

>>131500009
>I'd like to see a next generation tech company vs. country fight
As awesome and Cyberpunk-y that sounds, I'd rather not.

>>131503793
>totally in on it.
>totally caused it.
>not sure if ok at all.

>>131503750
>monopoly abuse

Completely arbitrary restrictions to shake down companies that are successful. That will sure nurture competition...

>>131504170

If an entity is large enough, it can stomp down any prospective competition before it turns into a viable alternative.

Arbitrary, maybe. But with an intent that you obviously don't seem to understand.

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>>131500009
>I'd like to see a next generation tech company vs. country fight
actually germany is a company, its a GmbH. germany isnt a country. every german is actually an employee. which makes it the most powerful company in the world.

also since it isnt a country it cant declare a war ( or get declared on )

thats about all, peace out.

>>131503877
/pol/ is a board of larpful peace.

>>131504329
>germany is a company, its a GmbH

biggest load of bull i've read this day, and that says a lot

>>131500009
Another company would immediately step in and take over.

Do you not know how business works? Google enjoys a network monopoly (a network monopoly is something like Facebook, where the value of the service increases the more people who use it, making it extremely hard for newcomers to compete) which is why it has no competition, but if it shut itself down then it would just be replaced.

>>131504170
>shake down companies that are successful
What part of "the ruling requires that Google change its practices" do you not get?

The point of this ruling is to force Google to follow the law. The fine is just the encouragement. If they don't obey the fines will get bigger and then people will start going to jail.

>>131500009
>letting competitors enter a now-devoid market that nets you five times as much yearly than the fine you're supposed to be paying
Yeah I'd like to see such a dumb move, too

>>131503730
>I hope Google shuts off service to every EU nation.
I want this too. I want an EU search engine rather than American shit.

I also think Android and iOS should be banned and Facebook too.

We need to make Europe European again and stop the degenerate filth that is coming via internet cables from across the Atlantic.

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>>131499785
>record-breaking fine
>peanuts
They'll happily pay and do the naughty again, because it's good business. Maybe better business than polluting the oceans and stuff.