[justinclift]

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

For smaller players, they'd have to think really carefully about whether they want to engage in multi-year litigation with them.

[WastingMyTime89]

> 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.

[einpoklum]

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-pine]

just the cost of doing business at that point

[theturtletalks]

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

[justinclift]

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

Meanwhile, Google will just keep on Googling...

[cykros]

10 billion dollars is a rounding error for the GOOG.