Re:Europe nearing Google antitrust charges
by personjerry on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @12:23AM
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Judges may think of their families, communities, and countries; in something of this scale it would be hard to be impartial.
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Judges may think of their families, communities, and countries; in something of this scale it would be hard to be impartial.
Compared to the combined national budgets of the EU member states the fine amount would be a rounding error.
Re:Europe nearing Google antitrust charges
by fabulist on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @12:31AM
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How much of an effect would $6B really have on the EU? According to Wikipedia[0], their GDP is around $16,800 billion. If I were the judge I wouldn't see any reason to believe my community would derive any measurably benefit from that income.
If a politician came to them and said, "we're going to use that $6B to fund this particular program," well sure, but that would seem to be a subset of bribery.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_European_Union