Let the EU shakedown for money begin!
This has nothing to do with anti-trust and everything to do with extracting a kilo of flesh from a successful non-EU company.
This has nothing to do with anti-trust and everything to do with extracting a kilo of flesh from a successful non-EU company.
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I think you misunderstood what the OP said
That leads me to believe these laws are "not strictly applied" but politically applied.
http://ec.europa.eu/competition/elojade/isef/index.cfm
I think you'll find the overwhelming majority are European companies.
It has everything to do with anti-trust. Google's near-monopoly on search is dangerous, and they've abused it multiple times. Google News and Yelp are good examples: they would steal content (not just link to it as they'd have you believe), then threaten to delist the victim's sites if they complained.