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That would be the best thing that could ever happen.

Refusal of service?

I don't know anything that would make people run to another service faster.

for consumers maybe, but if you don't have access to your data its problematic. for business and government departments it could be crippling

I did a few migration projects when I worked at the Discovery Channel and they took months of planning to ensure continuation of services.

So is Google promising continuation of services before turning them off?

in the hypothetical scenario where France tries to enforce a huge fine and Google says no thanks, France pushes and then Google turns off service it would be crippling. Google has a lot of power in that sort of negotiation.

Which is why I think it was only a token 0.05% of global revenue for the fine rather than 4%

I'd expect law signatories to raise an eyebrow. The purpose of the law is different.

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