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Re:EU suggests breaking up Google's ad business in prelimina... by madeofpalk on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @08:25AM (#36324823)
You can't have it both ways though. You don't get to take advantage of Irish law to reduce your tax/costs, but then also say that Ireland (and the EU) has no jurisdiction over you.
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Re:EU suggests breaking up Google's ad business in prelimina... by thfuran on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @08:43AM (#36325040)
But that's not the claim being made.
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Re:EU suggests breaking up Google's ad business in prelimina... by throwaway462910 on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @09:14AM (#36325406)
It's the claim being pre-emptively argued against though
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Re:EU suggests breaking up Google's ad business in prelimina... by bbor on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @09:35AM (#36325684)
Not sure there’s anyone in here arguing for google. Poor little google, being bullied by all us hackers…
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Re:EU suggests breaking up Google's ad business in prelimina... by sensanaty on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @10:23AM (#36326469)
You should check out the thread, lots of people throwing themselves in front of the firing line because I guess they think that messing with Google will somehow translate to messing with their own startups or whatever.
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Re:EU suggests breaking up Google's ad business in prelimina... by panragon on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @03:45PM (#36331512)
Or they just work for Google, of which there's a reasonable amount of members here, but yeah.
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Re:EU suggests breaking up Google's ad business in prelimina... by thfuran on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @10:47AM (#36326834)
The comment they replied to already explicitly stated that the EU has jurisdiction. They're not pre-empting anything.
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Re:EU suggests breaking up Google's ad business in prelimina... by panragon on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @03:44PM (#36331502)
This is completely false, I stated very clearly that they have jurisidiction regardless and that anti-trust is fine. I was just pointing out that it's pretty unfair to use the size of Google Ireland as if it's "just another EU country" when it accounts for basically all EU-based revenue.

€50bln is still a huge amount, but based on the phrasing of that comment you'd assume we were talking about figures well over €1t!

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