[virgilp]

Yeah, I really don't get it. Google seems to be daring EU to apply a 5% fine.... why wouldn't EU do that?

[throwaway33339]

5% is pocket money. By the time the get sued, lose, appeal, lose the appeal, etc. they'll have made that money many times over. At this scale fines are just the cost of doing business.

The only way to act as an actual deterrent is to put executives behind bars or dismantle the company.

[mywittyname]

They wouldn't be able to enforce it.

[virgilp]

Like what, Google would stop operating in Ireland and Netherlands? That’s worse than the rine

[distances]

Of course EU can enforce fines? It's being done all the time, the same as in US.