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Just once, I want a company being fined to just shut off service to the countries trying to fine them....
by icetoad 9y ago
Just once, I want a company being fined to just shut off service to the countries trying to fine them....
- CobrastanJorji 9y agoIt's not a 100% match, but some years back Spain came up with a system where Google News would be required to pay money to the news sites they linked to. Google responded by simply turning off Google News in Spain, which immediately cost Spanish news sites to lose a sizable percentage of traffic and millions of dollars in revenue: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/07/new-study-shows-spains-google-tax-has-been-a-disaster-for-publishers/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/07/new-study-shows-...
- icetoad 9y agoawesome.... doesn't appear they did anything to rectify the service disconnect, nor any of the other Spanish site that shutdown as a result.