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Like US is not doing it... Google broke EU laws on purpose - their revenue is huge from European markets, thus they should pay a huge fine. As simple as that.

by funkyy 9y ago

strictnein 9y ago
No, it's not "as simple as that". Deciding that a company owes 10% of its worldwide revenue because of something like this is not simple. > Like US is not doing it... They're not.
- rorykoehler 9y ago
  The US fined Deutsche Bank $14B & BNP $8B. That's how these things work at the moment.
  - strictnein 9y ago
    Got it. Moving billions of dollars through the US between illicit governments and banned groups is totally the same as tweaking search results and should be fined in equivalent amounts.
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    - NicoJuicy 9y ago
      The US only fined 5 billion to Goldman for the financial worldwide crisis. That's peanuts Ps. http://fortune.com/2016/04/11/goldman-sachs-doj-settlement/ http://fortune.com/2016/04/11/goldman-sachs-doj-settlement/
    - rorykoehler 9y ago
      Looking at this completely coldly and amorally... The governments aren't considered 'illicit' under French law. Perhaps search result manipulation isn't illegal under US law (I don't know). That's irrelevant as the laws of the land where the acts took place were broken. The companies breaking the laws must have known that and taken the risk anyway. They lost. They got fined. The more fines that happen the bigger the incentive for the other party to reciprocate.
    - ccrush 9y ago
      One of them is about stealing money while the other one is about controlling your sources for information, products, and services that you apply to your everyday life. If anything, Google should pay more. They can either play by the rules the people give them or give up their monopoly on web search voluntarily. There is a reason we have antitrust laws.
    - pyrale 9y ago
      In the case of BNP, deals were made by a french bank (not US jurisdiction) in its swiss branch (where stuff was legal, also not US jurisdiction). The bank was not judged guilty, but entered a plea, specifically because of the way the US justice system is structured. The jurisdiction claim was therefore not evaluated.
- 69mlgsniperdad 9y ago
  Lol. Have no worries. They are high up on the list. Trump knows the extent of the issues with google and facebook. He will strike when the time is right; when enough of the population is well aware, and supportive of him, and when he's gathered enough evidence to prove they are criminal(and evil.)

Like US is not doing it... Google broke EU laws on purpose - their revenue is huge from European markets, thus they should pay a huge fine. As simple as that.

by funkyy 9y ago

Like US is not doing it... Google broke EU laws on purpose - their revenue is huge from European markets, thus they should pay a huge fine. As simple as that.

strictnein 9y ago

No, it's not "as simple as that". Deciding that a company owes 10% of its worldwide revenue because of something like this is not simple. > Like US is not doing it... They're not.

rorykoehler 9y ago
The US fined Deutsche Bank $14B & BNP $8B. That's how these things work at the moment.
- strictnein 9y ago
  Got it. Moving billions of dollars through the US between illicit governments and banned groups is totally the same as tweaking search results and should be fined in equivalent amounts.
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  - NicoJuicy 9y ago
    The US only fined 5 billion to Goldman for the financial worldwide crisis. That's peanuts Ps. http://fortune.com/2016/04/11/goldman-sachs-doj-settlement/ http://fortune.com/2016/04/11/goldman-sachs-doj-settlement/
  - rorykoehler 9y ago
    Looking at this completely coldly and amorally... The governments aren't considered 'illicit' under French law. Perhaps search result manipulation isn't illegal under US law (I don't know). That's irrelevant as the laws of the land where the acts took place were broken. The companies breaking the laws must have known that and taken the risk anyway. They lost. They got fined. The more fines that happen the bigger the incentive for the other party to reciprocate.
  - ccrush 9y ago
    One of them is about stealing money while the other one is about controlling your sources for information, products, and services that you apply to your everyday life. If anything, Google should pay more. They can either play by the rules the people give them or give up their monopoly on web search voluntarily. There is a reason we have antitrust laws.
  - pyrale 9y ago
    In the case of BNP, deals were made by a french bank (not US jurisdiction) in its swiss branch (where stuff was legal, also not US jurisdiction). The bank was not judged guilty, but entered a plea, specifically because of the way the US justice system is structured. The jurisdiction claim was therefore not evaluated.
69mlgsniperdad 9y ago
Lol. Have no worries. They are high up on the list. Trump knows the extent of the issues with google and facebook. He will strike when the time is right; when enough of the population is well aware, and supportive of him, and when he's gathered enough evidence to prove they are criminal(and evil.)