What is he going to do? More tariffs?

European inferiority complex.

>why the fuck did they fine Google again?

They abused their dominant position in the mobile os market to make people use their search engine.

Of course they are obligated to pay if they want to keep making business in the EU.

>our money

oh finally I got hold of you, pay the fuck up, I need to order some soon to be tax free animes

>one of our great companies
>google

I know he's just trying to appease the powers that be but I never thought I'd ever take the side of yuropoors.

Fine the EU 10 billion.

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Russia good, Europe bad, free press very bad.

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Fuck you.

It's a just return of things after all the baseless fine the US imposed to European companies.

Based EU

Fully fledged war on European soil when?

Apple doesn't have monopoly, while Google do

This is the same asshole who sanctions foreign companies that do business with Iran after pulling out of the deal all of sudden.

>So fatso called and said "WTF, $5 BILLION FINE FOR MUH ELECTONIC JEW!!?!? GRFGRGUMFGRFPHGR!!!"
>And I, huehuehuehue, I said "Wrong!, 4.300 million €" pffhahahahaahaha

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>What is he going to do? More tariffs?
Probably something only Germany makes.

Based EU

Based EU

rt.com/news/433013-s-400-india-us-law-sanctions/
“We have told the US Congress delegation that this is US law and not a UN law,” India's defense minister Nirmala Sitharaman noted, apparently referring to a US federal bill that was implemented in 2017.

>They abused their dominant position in the mobile os market to make people use their search engine.
>Of course they are obligated to pay if they want to keep making business in the EU.
Yeah because the other search engines are so much better that everyone uses them. I'm sure you use Bing all the time.

Our Bing is called Qwant.

>while apple can lock iphones into safari
EU probably realizes even iPhone users don't use Safari or Apple Maps

>make people use their search engine.
how do you even prove that? what should they have done? preload the phones with all the search engines, makes no sense.

If they were so much better, why did they have to force people to use ir

>our money

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You gotta realize that if there is one thing that EU takes seriously, it's making sure that free markets work. And that means going after monopolies mercilessly. As a neoliberal I approve.

They paid money and gave discounts for manufacturers that used their software or didnt use things they disliked.

the way iphones are built, you can't use anything other than safari as the base browser. google chrome on ios is just safari reskinned with google account integration.
your argument is that you have an inferiority complex??
check your paypal

Americans value their corporations more than a functioning free market.

>Our Bing is called Qwant.
I have an Android device and magically the phone allowed me to use Qwant. So how is it a monopoly?

>look at me I am defending my God emperor and my corporate overlords at the same time!
Google used their money and market share to influence companies to only use their software or not that of the competition.

My argument is that Google is breaking the law, while apple is not. I'd like them to go after apple as well, but they have no legal ground to do so

Based EU

Doesn't matter either way, the corporations themselves see their interests. Apple has started paying that 14+ billion euros tax bill too. American citizens don't have any say in how we do things and how the megacorps react.

>fining jewgle is bad

>According to the EU, Google’s illegal behavior dates back to 2011 and includes forcing manufacturers to pre-install Google Search and its Chrome browser together with its Google Play app store on their Android devices, paying them to pre-install only Google Search and blocking them from using rival Android systems.

>“Google has used Android as a vehicle to cement the dominance of its search engine” over rivals, EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager told reporters.

>Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai warned that Android may not remain free as a result of the EU ruling or it may shift to a tightly controlled distribution model like rival Apple Inc.

>Vestager dismissed Google’s argument that it had competition from Apple, saying iPhones were not a sufficient check on Google’s dominance because they cost more and require users to exert significant effort to adopt.

>“What would serve competition is to have more players,” she said.

reuters.com/article/us-eu-google-antitrust/europe-hits-google-with-record-5-billion-antitrust-fine-appeal-ahead-idUSKBN1K80U8

They already went after Apple for not paying their 0.5% profit tax in Ireland. Well actually they forced Ireland to collect it against their will

>If they were so much better, why did they have to force people to use ir
They didn't I can add another search engine app or go to the website. If people are retarded that isn't Google's fault.

Wow, you're very smart. You should take a screenshot of your post and send it to Google asking if you can represent them in antitrust lawsuits in Brussels, I hear they pay really well.

Doesn't Google own android

Vestager is my favourite politician

>You have to follow our laws without having representation

Hmm where did I hear this before?

He doesnt understand the concept of a monopoly. He did it yesterday too, btfoing the liberals and Europoors with arguments such as ‘I can use Bing’ ‘whiter than you Muhammed’ etc

>Well actually they forced Ireland to collect it against their will
Has Ireland actually done it yet?

>Google laughs, pulls all services from EU
>no more Google.com, no more Android devices, no more of their smart home products, nothing works
>competitors scramble, spending billions to eat up the open European market
>they pay the fine a month later and come back in, fucking over all their competitors and ruining their investments

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read this I just can't understand why people shill for megacorporations. Breaking up their monopolistic practices is good for consumers, ie you and me.

>iPhones were not a sufficient check on Google’s dominance because they cost more and require users to exert significant effort to adopt.

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>He doesnt understand the concept of a monopoly. He did it yesterday too, btfoing the liberals and Europoors with arguments such as ‘I can use Bing’ ‘whiter than you Muhammed’ etc
Are you retarded enough to think all Americans are the same person?

They collected the first 1.5 billions in May IIRC.

EU knows very little of open source. phone manufactures in Europe can create their own operating system, but they know that it will be shit and noone will buy it. its hilarious that EU says android is anti-competitive when it actually empowers the smartphone market in Europe, and without it it would be nonexistent.
also i dont know what the demographic is like across the Atlantic but in the US iphone is more widespread

Based EU, the world's ethical superpower, pissing off Trump, Evil Corp. and corporate cucks all at once.

Google gave discounts to manufacturers that installed the Android version of their liking as opposed to Android distribution they did not like.

It's been put in an escrow account pending the court decision

>Americans are all retarded so you can't know it was the same guy!
That's your objection?.

Android has an 80%+ marketshare in the EU

Knowing Donald, he's probably going to directly punish Denmark simply because the EU's chief regulator is Danish.

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>EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said she “very much liked” the United States, countering a reported remark by President Donald Trump that she “hated” the country because of her antitrust actions against U.S. firms.

>“I very much like the U.S.,” Vestager told a news conference to announce a record fine on Google after she was asked about what Trump was quoted as saying at a G7 summit last month.

>The U.S. president told Vestager’s boss, Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, “your tax lady, she hates the U.S.”, according to summit participants.

>That appeared to be a reference to her pursuit of Apple Inc. and other U.S. companies for channeling profits through low-tax EU states.

>Vestager said that as a Dane she was predisposed to feel positive toward the United States.

>“But the fact is that this has nothing to do with how I feel. Nothing whatsoever. Just as enforcing competition law, we do it in the world, but we do not do it in political context,” she added.

>Vestager added she would continue to enforce competition law, no matter the political context.

>but in the US iphone is more widespread
Misleading statement. Android is more popular once you start including tablets and other devices running Android.
On top of that only in western-Europe the iPhone stands a chance against Android. In most of Europe people just cannot afford them.

Android overal dominates the world with billions of devices

>On top of that only in western-Europe the iPhone stands a chance against Android
in the UK, yeah

the rest isn't as dumb

>Be Amurigga
>Go around the world preaching open markets
>Go back home and worship big companies with monopolistic practices

Errytime.

Google can fuck right off back to their hole in USA if they don't like it here. Our home our rules, no monopolistic jewery allowed.

>your tax lady
Trump really doesn't understand anything about anything.

>The commission found that the firm had used three illegal tactics to cement its dominance in mobile search:

>requiring phone makers to pre-install Google Search and its Chrome browser as a condition for accessing the company’s app store;

>making payments to companies such as Apple to pre-install Google search,

>and preventing firms from selling devices with alternative versions of its Android operating system.

fuck google

God I hope this happens, I would let the tears of eurosocialists quench my thirst

Why do Americans love Israel so much

I'm hoping that Trump will escalate the trade war so the EU gets pretense to seize American intellectual property. The WTO has already granted island states like Antigua & Barbuda to violate American copyright laws in trade disputes in the past.

FYI the USA almost shut down ZTE about 2 months ago and forced them to change their entire corporate structure.

>Volvo Cars to transfer their manufacturing from China and the US to Europe due to trade war
>Manufacturing growth has totally stalled in the US according to the FED
Trump is litterally SEETHING

>>iPhones were not a sufficient check on Google’s dominance because they cost more and require users to exert significant effort to adopt.
>and require users to exert significant effort to adopt.
What were they implying by this, that using an iPhone is too complex for people in the EU?

I just hope that idiot loses his next term and things go back to normal again
Why did Americans get such a victim complex all of the sudden anyway?

Yes, over allegations of state espionage, quite a far cry from a pathetically transparent "antitrust" charge.

And that delicious FTA with Japan.

Wasn't google one of the evil, leftist companies, trying to prevent god emperror Trump from seizing power?

Google was the biggest contributor to the Clinton Campaign

this. google also created a good market for developers not to mention google play and the OS itself, this is a dumb fine, Trump will retaliate with more dumb tariffs, all of this is against the free marker, it's not free market if you get the same forced and equal access to other 2000 shitty software and OS just because google tends to offer better quality, use something else then but you can't whack the most successful product just for the sake of it being a "monopoly".

Why does he seem like he is literally 11 years old mentally? Not even memeing, he is not even some serious hard right boogeyman some on the left see him as, he is a child.

>That's your objection?.
I'm not the one who doesn't know the definition of monopoly.

>mo·nop·o·ly
məˈnäpəlē/Submit
noun
1.
the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.
"his likely motive was to protect his regional monopoly on furs"

>ex·clu·sive
ikˈsklo͞osiv/Submit
adjective
adjective: exclusive
>2.
restricted or limited to the person, group, or area concerned.
"the couple had exclusive possession of the condo"

>Why did Americans get such a victim complex all of the sudden anyway?

Too much bantering I guess, that mutt meme really hurt them.

Hopefully the Russian puppet will resign.

His voters like it. They too feel like the world has wronged them and China and the EU are at fault for their limp dicks
A monopoly doesnt mean they control 100% of the market without a single alternative available, my magapede friend. there is more nuance

>>Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai warned that Android may not remain free as a result of the EU ruling or it may shift to a tightly controlled distribution model like rival Apple Inc.
>Using blackmail in the year of our lord 2007 + 11

If they want to lose the european market like they lost the chinese market, sure go ahead.

The EU doesn't fine google for being successful, it's about abusing a dominant position. Litteraly basic antitrust laws.

>“What would serve competition is to have more players,” she said.
Slamdunk.

>A monopoly doesnt mean they control 100% of the market without a single alternative available, my magapede friend. there is more nuance

This. Anti-trust laws would be pretty bad if they were applied only when the free markets have stopped working. The point is that they never be let to degenerate to that point.

>muh German cars r taking our jerbs
>Europe tells Jewgle to fuck off
>rreeee

Two can play your games.

Why does a dog love its master?

One thing that EU does right is going after these megacorps and their monopolistic practices.

I think it was the burger. Spurdo was glorious.

Isn't Google located in Ireland especially to avoid being taxed (including by the US) ?
That makes it technically a potato company

Facebook, Tesla, Ebay, Amazon can all fuck off in the future. Trump is pissing away America’s dominance in industries that actually matter for coalnigger votes.

Nokia will rise again from the ashes

>94 posts
>36 IPs
Really makes you think

THIS