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Only in Europe would a cartel of newspapers be aided by the government in extorting a foreign company without anyone crying foul. If I were Google I would incl

• OGinparadise 14y ago
  To be fair, when Google or [insert corp here] operates in France it is not a foreign company. Google could pull out of France if they wanted to, otherwise they have to respect local laws and regulations. I don't agree with the French media co demands but then Google (and Bing) do exploit content in an unfair way, like showing full images on their sites, making a visit to the image creator less likely. Now that people use search engines to find content it's easy to say "block them"...
• pilooch 14y ago
  There's more in the balance, Google is facing a huge tax case: http://www.france24.com/en/20121121-france-google-confident-victory-google-tax-case http://www.france24.com/en/20121121-france-google-confident-... I am far from understanding the details of this, but it involves channeling money and contracts to Ireland, where taxes are lower. French radio has been revealing that some of these operations are not fully legal.
  • mcintyre1994 14y ago
    At the risk of being wrong, what Google (and others) have been doing in France, here in the UK etc, is legal - I believe under EU law. The governments probably can't do much, but some people are a bit annoyed about their ridiculously low tax contributions. Perhaps they've gone further in France than they did here though.