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Re:Google hit with €1.5B fine from EU over advertising by jquery on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @12:45PM (#19443996)
At $1.5B, it's about collecting revenue to fund EU activities. It's far beyond the amount of revenue the infraction generated by order(s?) of magnitude, and was a gray area to boot.

Keeping the taxes as "fines" ensures they can give EU companies favorable treatment. It's the definition of corrupt: "a willingness to act dishonestly in return for money"

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Re:Google hit with €1.5B fine from EU over advertising by andrepd on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @02:41PM (#19445397)
>It's far beyond the amount of revenue the infraction generated by order(s?) of magnitude

$1.5B is far below the amount of revenue Google got from advertising since 2006. I'm not sure what you mean by this.

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