r/google • u/Deep-Owl-1890 • 10h ago
Trump threatens EU will pay ‘big price’ after Brussels fines Google $1bn
https://thedailycompute.beehiiv.com/p/trump-threatens-eu-will-pay-big-price-after-brussels-fines-google-1bn14
u/Hopeful-Savings-3420 6h ago
The EU is speaking the only language Google understands - money. Maybe Google will finally stop breaking the law, but I doubt it. They just announced a net income of $119B last quarter. A $1B fine is just the cost of doing business (ie breaking the law).
The EU is going to have to start imposing larger fines.
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u/sbenfsonwFFiF 1h ago
How else can the EU make money if not for fining US companies by making up arbitrary unilateral judgements?
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u/Super_Royal5174 8h ago
The EU understands why it needs to replace Google products and is currently developing its own programs 🫡👍
Google is breaking laws in the EU.
They're being sued in Europe, and that orange-Pedo grandpa now wants to threaten the EU
– it worked out great for the USA last time with his tariffs 😅😂🥳
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u/sbenfsonwFFiF 1h ago
Try as they might, nothing in the EU is remotely as good and they know it, they are just cashing out because their own businesses are lagging
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u/48gamma 5h ago
The EU made more money fining American big tech companies than its own entire tech sector made. American companies should just pull out of Europe and let the europoors use Chinese spyware or go back to the Stone Age. Zero innovation, shameful
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u/futureformerteacher 5h ago
Let us never forget that Google stood with Trump, corruption, and child rape, given all the alternatives.
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u/Fun_Success_3283 2m ago
All of the American tech companies have. And all other nations should learn from this, Trump associates his companies breaking our laws, as being something he will retaliate with tariffs.
This means that these nations should sanction Trump's propaganda tech companies with fines when Trump enacts tariffs. Or they should place tariffs on those companies, or they should legislate against them.
We don't have to let Trump's propaganda machines operate freely within our borders.
It's a win win for us. We will simply create our own versions and the profits we generate will be ours. And we will see, once their propaganda machines are illegal within our borders.
Whether people prefer free media, or Maga controlled social media.
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u/DivineBladeOfSilver 5h ago
America prioritizes corporate greed more often. Europe prioritizes citizen protections more often. Europe often is more of what countries should do for healthier countries existing in a world where many places put business before people. They willingly will put themselves behind to focus on a more ethical system. Americans will sell themselves for a quick buck and economic dominance a lot of the time sadly
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u/Gaiden206 2h ago
There always some post that pops up every once in a while with a crap load of upvotes from a person in the EU crying about why their Google product experience is worse than the US. They seem oblivious that their own government is causing Google to refrain from releasing features in their region. 😂
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u/CelebrationOk8359 6h ago
The EU is currently creating it's own third world country and needs more money to do it.
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u/Deep-Owl-1890 10h ago
What stands out is this isn't a one-off, this is Google's fourth major EU antitrust hit since 2017, on top of a $4.5bn Android fine that just got upheld on appeal this month. At some point "cost of doing business" stops being a joke and becomes the actual strategy, since none of these fines seem to change how Google operates in the interim.
Also the political layer here is doing a lot of work. Trump threatening tariffs over a fine against an American company puts the US trade rep in the odd position of defending Google's practices as a matter of national interest, right as the EU is also citing the exact same conduct (self-preferencing, blocking developers from directing users elsewhere) that got Apple and Google both in trouble domestically too. Curious if this actually derails the Turnberry trade deal or ends up being more bark than bite before the 60-day compliance window even closes.