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How can someone negotiate a rate without the ability to walk away?
by satyrnein 7y ago
How can someone negotiate a rate without the ability to walk away?
- akiselev 7y agoThey do have the ability to walk away - just like users have the ability to walk away from Google. They can cease operations in France and remove themselves from France's jurisdiction (probably the whole EU, including their wonderful little tax haven). They did it to China once, if I remember correctly, after a series of state sponsored Gmail breaches. Don't want to pay? Don't participate. I'm enjoying the schadenfreud even though I'm terrified of the implications for the rest of tech.
- zepto 7y agoCan they instead simply start their own news gathering operation?
- londons_explore 7y agoThey'd get fined heavily for that... Using a monopoly position in one market to enter another...
- zepto 7y agoIf that were true, then Google can’t start any new information service businesses. Is that what you are saying?
- thatguy0900 7y agoI'm sure they could start something in a different area where regulators arnt already breathing down their necks. France probably wouldn't react well to the specific plan to start a news org though.
- yostrovs 7y agoFrance can pretend that Google doesn't exist.
- nitwit005 7y agoYou can't. It's fairly obvious they expect the publishers to come back and claim Google is being unfair and have the courts make up a rate.