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

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"...