Google loses challenge against EU antitrust ruling, $2.8B fine

Re:Google loses challenge against EU antitrust ruling, $2.8B... by niyikiza on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @02:06PM (#29179003)

Actually that can be quite an equitable way of distributing the fines (to all people holding the currency in question).

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Re:Google loses challenge against EU antitrust ruling, $2.8B... by caymanjim on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:17PM (#29180098)

While in theory this sounds nice, in practice it means everyone gets nothing. It's a rare case where I'd rather see the government get money. A comparable scenario is a class-action lawsuit; a company might lose a billion dollar class action lawsuit, but what that means is a third goes to lawyers, a third goes to administrative overhead, and the remaining third is distributed to the plaintiffs as a bunch of checks for 50 cents a piece (and then they're taxed on it!). I'd rather the government get one big check.

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Re:Google loses challenge against EU antitrust ruling, $2.8B... by samstave on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:27PM (#29180234)

Hmmm...

>>While in theory this sounds nice, in practice it means everyone gets nothing.

im trying to find out where anyone got something?

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