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Comment by oblio

9 hours ago

The EU shouldn't be regulating Google like this.

The US should.

The DOJ brought an antitrust case against Google… and won.

Then the judge pretty much decided “no consequences”.

  • It was the lamest excuse ever.

    Something like, "I'm worried about impairing Google's ability to compete in AI" or some nonsense. (Paraphrasing here.)

    Looks like all it takes to compete in AI is to issue stock or get a bunch of investors. I don't see how Google would struggle with that. It's completely orthogonal to antitrust enforcement.

Why not both? Countries should be able to signal which business practices are undesirable.

  • The EU can't realistically bring Google to its knees. The US could.

    I say that as a European that's very much in favor of government intervention to fix market distortions.