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Europe's top court upholds Google's record $4.7B antitrust fine
- ChrisArchitect 3mo ago[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48758309 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48758309
- johnathan101 3mo ago[flagged]
- luckystarr 3mo agoIt only changes behaviour if the risk of having to pay outweighs the benefit. And Google won't tell what they earned through that I guess.
- chromadon 3mo agoI often wonder what would happen if Google just refused to pay, or just kept it stuck in legal purgatory as that would be cheaper than paying the fine.
- paulddraper 3mo agoThey definitely affect behavior. Legal compliance is a huge part of modern enterprises precisely because of cases like this. Ultimately, everything has a risk/reward analysis, but it factors in heavily.
- xg15 3mo agoHow much do all the appeals processes cost?
- jimmy76615 3mo agoI'm sure Trump is going to retaliate with tariffs. The times when the EU could steal from American companies that easily are over.
- paulddraper 3mo agotl;dr Google required Android phone manufactures to use Google Search and Chrome. Ironically, Apple uses Safari on 100% of their phones.