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Re:Google loses EU appeal and is fined a record $4B by londons_explore on Thursday September 22, 2022 @10:57AM (#32939734)
What really matters is how many dollars did they take from european citizens and businesses, and how many tax and fine dollars did they return.

Europe needs to make sure these tech giants get to keep just enough money that they don't pull out of europe entirely, but not much more.

Big fines are a start, but a better approach is taxation, since that takes away the regulatory risk for the companies.

Re:Google loses EU appeal and is fined a record $4B by tmoravec on Thursday September 22, 2022 @11:12AM (#32939983)
> Big fines are a start, but a better approach is taxation, since that takes away the regulatory risk for the companies.

Companies should obey the laws first and foremost. I'm not sure there's a lot of regulatory risk either; Google certainly has enough lawyers to know that what they did was illegal.

Re:Google loses EU appeal and is fined a record $4B by 6510 on Thursday September 22, 2022 @12:53PM (#32941519)
There is no reason to think Google is not aware of EU laws.

One such law for example forbids fake reviews.

Google creates profiles for small businesses, invites everyone to anonymously say whatever they want about business and rate it.

Then they list advertisement from competitors next to it.

Their solution for the public shaming contest is that you should send more <s>customers</s> people to google to review your business and of course purchase adds.

The law says that if you want to do reviews of any kind you must be able to prove the review is from someone who purchased a product or service. The fines are in % of global revenue. Google could have some legal talking point if they allowed business to disable it.

We didn't know wont fly.

Re:Google loses EU appeal and is fined a record $4B by oblak on Thursday September 22, 2022 @11:08AM (#32939920)
Huh? The EU tech sector would absolutely love the US giants pulling out (phrasing) of Europe. Who wants to fight all these behemoths that pay almost no taxes here because they "invest" so much
Re:Google loses EU appeal and is fined a record $4B by dvfjsdhgfv on Thursday September 22, 2022 @11:17AM (#32940059)
Let's imagine for a second that someone really wanted FB out of Europe. FB would fight tooth and nail to stay - because losing the European market would be a huge blow to them. Practically every European business at least tried using FB ads, some have permanent campaigns. There is no way FB would ever leave Europe. They will fight, they will pay, they will protest, but the chances of them leaving are exactly zero.