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Re:Three European Countries Block Tax on Tech Giants by orcdork on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @12:46PM (#18393187)
Why shouldn't the bureaucracy be fed? These companies make money off of it.

I don't see any justification for your position besides a nebulous wish for Europe to have an equivalent of google/facebook, and to be honest, besides adding an extra line on all those "european unicorn" blog posts, i don't see much advantage to it either. There's obviously positives to more profitable businesses - but why another google/facebook?

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Re:Three European Countries Block Tax on Tech Giants by toomuchtodo on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @01:04PM (#18393348)
> There's obviously positives to more profitable businesses - but why another google/facebook?

Some Europeans want in on the industrial surveillance tech complex profit machine.

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