EU slaps Google with record $2.7 billion fine

[Cathoholic]

You can “fine” these mega-corporations all you want. But without serious competition, those “fine” costs are merely passed on . . . . To you.

Big Government and Big Business go hand in hand.
Big Government and Big Business go hand in hand.
Big Government and Big Business go hand in hand.
Big Government and Big Business go hand in hand.

Just keep repeating that and sooner or later it will stick.

 

[J_Peterson]

People can think they don’t pay for Google all they want, but you still end up paying.

The “fines” ultimately get passed on to the consumers from Google. Even if you never use their search engine.

“Fines” such as this do not intimidate Google.

If anti-trust laws are broken, then break the company up into seven or eight different companies (which injects competetion, lowers costs to consumers, encourages innovation, provides jobs, and potentially defangs a company that is “too big to fail”).

Admittedly not easy as Google is international but could be done.

Peter26:

This is exactly WHY you break up the company.

I’m a bit slow, I get what you’re saying now. I agree, they are too big.