The American tech giant has been ordered to pay €1.7 billion to Swedish firm Klarna for favoring its own price comparison service. This marks the latest episode in a series of sanctions against Google in Europe for abuse of dominant market position, writes Le Monde columnist Isabelle Chaperon.
Unfunny fact: Europe pays that amount just for Microsoft Office / 365 in under 2 months. While having available LibreOffice free of charge fully legally…
That is disgusting. So much tax money going to genocide support.
Only small part of that is tax money. Most are businesses.
Oh. I thought “Europe” meant European governments and similar institutions.
Still very bad.
I meant Europe as a region, as defined by Microsoft’s internal division.
But yeah, also governments are paying crazy money for that. And that ARE taxpayers money… 😐
the highest damages ever awarded in Europe in a private antitrust case, …so far.
Let’s keep setting good precedents!
When a fine costs less than just keeping on with what they’re already doing, they’ll just pay the fine and continue.
Why not make them actually bleed so they fucking stop