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I guess it's a complex decision, but I feel like if I was running a worldwide business and a single country decided to impose a $100 billion fine (the scenario

I guess it's a complex decision, but I feel like if I was running a worldwide business and a single country decided to impose a $100 billion fine (the scenario I was describing), I'd want nothing to do with that country. That's much, much more than the market opportunity that Google has in France. Probably I'd want to avoid operating at all in countries that have a chance of imposing that scale of fine.

ahje 8y ago
This is not a single country -- as the article mentions, this decision is valid for the entire EU. Obviously, there will still be some kind of limit for individual businesses, but a 50M€ fine is nowhere near enough for a company like Google to stop doing business in the entire European Union.