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0 pointsWastingMyTime892y ago0 comments

> Google has enough lawyers to give the EU and US the run around when they want to.

Google has paid something like 10 billions dollars of fines in the EU during the last decade. I don’t think they are giving the run around to anyone.

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einpoklum2y ago

Alphabet is valued at over 1.5 Trillion dollars. If they pay 1 Billion USD in fines per year, maybe their lawyers are actually doing an ok job for their client.

red-iron-pine2y ago

just the cost of doing business at that point

theturtletalks2y ago

Are you sure they paid it or they were ordered to do so? Most times, the fine is reduced or appealed ad infinitum.

justinclift2y ago

Yeah, lets wait a couple of decades and see how those court cases actually end up.

Meanwhile, Google will just keep on Googling...

cykros2y ago

10 billion dollars is a rounding error for the GOOG.

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