EU calling for Google to be broken up

Ag please.

Most probably Microsoft lobbying in the back, with a Bing contract for the EU waiting in the wings.

Rather sort out the Ukraine and stop wasting time.
 
It is crazy to think that our world only wants to publish successful companies. A decade ago Google was almost nothing, but they grew by offering what people wanted and doing it the best. Now they should be punished for this? Because the other companies cannot keep up or don't want to put in the effort? Reminds me very much of the situation in SA, punish those who are doing well so that others don't feel bad.
 
Will be interesting to see if Google gets broken up before the EU breaks up, with the UK at the lead.
 
Jola said:
Will be interesting to see if Google gets broken up before the EU breaks up, with the UK at the lead.
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Yeah, and any moment now the United States of America are also going to break up.... any day now. Theyve been saying it for over a hundred years. Its really ganna happen any day now...
 
What's happening in the UK is a bit more significant :

In May 2014, UKIP became the first party in over a century other than Labour or the Conservatives to come first in a United Kingdom-wide election, with its performance in the 2014 European elections giving it 24 of the UK's 73 seats in the European Parliament.[10] It has two MPs in the House of Commons, three members in the House of Lords and one seat in the Northern Ireland Assembly.[11][12] The party's performance in the 2013 local elections, when it came fourth in the number of council seats won and third in nationwide vote share,[13][14] was called the "biggest surge for a fourth party" in British politics since the Second World War.[15]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Independence_Party
 
And it starts...

BRUSSELS — Europe’s resentment of the American technology giant Google reached a new noise level on Thursday as the European Parliament passed a nonbinding vote to break up the company.

Although merely symbolic — the resolution carries no legal weight — the move came the day after a separate European body sought to further expand citizens’ “right to be forgotten” privacy protections against Google.

Both moves are also playing out against the backdrop of a long-running investigation by the European authorities of Google, on which the European Union’s new antitrust chief, Margrethe Vestager, is still getting up to speed.

A breakup of Google in Europe will almost certainly not happen, legal experts say. And whether any of the various policy moves afoot will ever significantly curtail the company’s business operations across the region is still too soon to gauge.
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I remember when Google was just as search engine and nothing more. Now they basically own the internet.

Honestly I couldn't care less. They decide to worry and debate about this issue and ignore the real problems of the world.
 
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