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Comment by robin_reala

5 days ago

There are a couple of companies in the list[1] (of seven) that aren’t US-based. ByteDance are Chinese and Booking are EU (NL).

[1] https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/gatekeepers_en

Probably also important to note, is that ByteDance and TikTok are also currently being investigated by the European Commission. Although for different reasons under the Digital Services Act - so it's not like they are targeting US companies specifically with the law.

Also the commission is known to fine European entities all the time for various reasons, one of the recent ones I can think of is Pierre Cardin and it's partners for restricting cross border European sales.

Booking Holdings which Wikipedia has as the parent of booking.com seems to be US owned.