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What's Godwin's law for discussing European legislation with American Capitalists? "As an online discussion about the EU grows longer, the probability of a fal
by piltdownman 3y ago
What's Godwin's law for discussing European legislation with American Capitalists?
"As an online discussion about the EU grows longer, the probability of a false-equivalence with Communism being made approaches 1."
Simply put, it works exactly the way its intended - with a legislative lag due to fierce lobbying. The song and dance made about EU Foreign Subsidy legislation in Q4 of last year is testament to exactly that
https://www.wsj.com/articles/multinationals-slam-new-eu-foreign-subsidy-laws-reporting-rules-874b3e83 https://www.wsj.com/articles/multinationals-slam-new-eu-fore...
Or we can look at the €8 Billion in anti-trust Rulings against Google - like in 2017, where it was found guilty of abusing market dominance and was fined €2.4 billion.
Or how about in 2018 where they fined them €4.8 billion over Android and mandated the following which were implemented in October 2018?
* Charging a licensing fee for the store, without requiring installation of Google apps, but making it free to pre-install the Google apps if they want.
* Allowing Google's hardware partners to market devices in the EU that run rival versions of Android or other operating systems.
* European users of Android phones are given an option of which browser and search engine they want on their phone at time of setup