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That's not really a comparison that makes sense. Mexico has very little leverage on the US. EU has loads of leverage on Google.
by tpmx 7y ago
That's not really a comparison that makes sense. Mexico has very little leverage on the US. EU has loads of leverage on Google.
- shadowgovt 7y agoWe shall see. It has thus far been in Google's best financial interests to make nice in the European markets because of the size of the user base that they would leave on the table if they responded to EU pressure by shutting down services. I'm unsure if that continues to be true if the EU siphons money off of them to build a direct competitor.
- tpmx 7y agoThe EU represents close to 50% of potential/projected revenue to Google in the next 10 years, is my guess. That's what I meant when I wrote "loads of leverage".
- root_axis 7y agoIt's not that simple. In a scenario where google was shut out of the EU you'd have a lot of pissed off citizens, and google knows this.
- tpmx 7y agoI don't think it's in the basic values of the European Union to suddenly block Google. We're talking increasing taxation, over a 5-20 year period, that kind of thing. We're not North Korea or the PRC. Or in some other other gradual way. Anyway: it's not a binary over-night thing based on a whim of some dictator. Either way, I fully trust the competency of the people running these things; they have proven themselves in the past. I'm writing that as a Swedish citizen who is a little bit skeptic about whole the EU thing. This part though - I trust these EU bureaucrats. My impression is that there's a team of very sharp people working on this.