[goatforce5]

Google has plenty of offices (and, i'm sure, many more legal entities) in Europe:

http://www.google.ca/about/company/facts/locations/

[notahacker]

Google being forced to close European offices and encouraged to repatriate European profits to non-European low-tax locations wouldn't stop Google Inc from continuing to run a business headquartered in California or dissuade 90% of European internet users from searching Google first.

[tormeh]

Yeah, but if Google can't sell ads to EU companies then the letting EU citizens search on Google won't help much.

[dkei]

This has little bearing on the gravity of the ask, the jurisdictional authority of the EU is not unlimited.

Besides it's a disproponate legislative move targeting one company, it will in the very least raise questions.

[adventured]

If they go forward with it, it'll do more than raise questions. It'll ignite an international economic war, with mostly losers on all sides. Dumber economic mistakes have been made throughout history (eg the pre great depression trade / tariff wars).

[happyscrappy]

It won't raise any questions. Europeans love their fake internet censorship "right to be forgotten".