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Re:EU suggests breaking up Google's ad business in prelimina... by ChuckNorris89 on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @08:30AM (#36324883)
> Unlike the U.S., E.U lawmakers can't be bought.

I'm curious if you're that naive to believe that or if you were trolling and wrote that with a straight face.

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Re:EU suggests breaking up Google's ad business in prelimina... by permo-w on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @08:51AM (#36325117)
if EU lawmakers could be bought in the same way US ones can, there is absolutely no way that GDPR or the DMA would have been enacted. this isn't to say that they are completely unbuyable, but look at how much the companies affected had to lose. literally tens of billions in some cases. there's evidence online that they were pumping money into any channel possible to try and stop the DMA, but they failed
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Re:EU suggests breaking up Google's ad business in prelimina... by sebzim4500 on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @10:52AM (#36326903)
If US lawmakers could be bought the same way that EU ones can, there is absolutely no way that they would have increased the corporate tax rate from 19% to 25%.

/s

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Re:EU suggests breaking up Google's ad business in prelimina... by permo-w on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @05:29PM (#36333013)
that's a false equivalence and you know it
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