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It's the world's largest economic sphere, and Google would be liable to lose not just the 20% or so in revenue, but also their claim to operate world-wide. Sudd

It's the world's largest economic sphere, and Google would be liable to lose not just the 20% or so in revenue, but also their claim to operate world-wide. Suddenly, AWS would be a whole lot more useful than GCS again. And for what? Because you and other Americans consider it somehow beneath you to know about other countries' laws? Note that while you're frustrated by the cognitive load and its impact on your jingoism, Google-the-company has no such feelings, and just pays a few lawyers who will happily get them into compliance. Without any doubt, Google's earnings in Europe are orders of magnitude larger than whatever they're spending on in-house lawyers. Compared to their R&D, and hardware, and electricity, it's a rounding error. You're just experiencing some knee-jerk emotional reaction. And to be honest: I can't even really put my finger on how GRPC ended up seemingly threatening fragile US egos. Also: just consider Google's endless misgivings about it'z decision to withdraw from China, even though the reasons there were far more

kick 7y ago
I want Amazon and Google to get pushed out of the EU. It'd be hilarious to me, and better for the world writ large. Also, GRPC is a Google framework. Did you mean GDPR? I think the GDPR is a great thing. I think Google is bad. That doesn't change the fact that Google will continue to make substantially more money off of the EU than the measly fines they've been given by the EU so far: there's no incentive for them to be a good actor. They've been fined barely a few billion in fines, despite repeatedly violating the GDPR. I want the EU to start migrating their countries away from Google, but instead they're depending on it more and more and giving it slaps on the wrist whenever they do something bad that they admit to.
- jacquesm 7y ago
  > I want Amazon and Google to get pushed out of the EU. That won't happen. They may get fined though, until they fall in line.
  - kick 7y ago
    I'm aware it won't happen. Wants don't always reflect plausible circumstances.
  - shadowgovt 7y ago
    I remember historically, Amazon found the amount of fines they were willing to pay in France quite high for the privilege of continuing to flaunt the bookseller's guild laws.

kick 7y ago

I want Amazon and Google to get pushed out of the EU. It'd be hilarious to me, and better for the world writ large. Also, GRPC is a Google framework. Did you mean GDPR? I think the GDPR is a great thing. I think Google is bad. That doesn't change the fact that Google will continue to make substantially more money off of the EU than the measly fines they've been given by the EU so far: there's no incentive for them to be a good actor. They've been fined barely a few billion in fines, despite repeatedly violating the GDPR. I want the EU to start migrating their countries away from Google, but instead they're depending on it more and more and giving it slaps on the wrist whenever they do something bad that they admit to.

jacquesm 7y ago
> I want Amazon and Google to get pushed out of the EU. That won't happen. They may get fined though, until they fall in line.
- kick 7y ago
  I'm aware it won't happen. Wants don't always reflect plausible circumstances.
- shadowgovt 7y ago
  I remember historically, Amazon found the amount of fines they were willing to pay in France quite high for the privilege of continuing to flaunt the bookseller's guild laws.