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by adventured
4219 days ago
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If the European Commission is seeking as an end goal to force Google to split its business, on anti-competitive concerns, then that is similar to what the DOJ does with anti-trust enforcement. The intent is the same: to see business X split. The DOJ's domestic powers are far greater than the EU Commission's ability to impact Google, but that's not for lack of wanting to. My point stands regardless. Show me where the United States Government attempts to force major European or Asian companies to split into pieces. I'd love to see numerous examples of the US Government doing what the EU Commission is doing. |
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Yes, but the issue isn't the EC seeking to do that as part of any enforcement action, the issue is the European Parliament passing a non-binding resolution recommending that the EC should do that (and, as I understand it, that it should do that if its issues with Google aren't satisfactorily resolved otherwise.)
So, the US DOJ actually attempting to do that in a concrete enforcement action wouldn't be a parallel comparison, it would be a much more significant action than what is actually happening in Europe right now.
> The DOJ's domestic powers are far greater than the EU Commission's ability to impact Google, but that's not for lack of wanting to.
More relevantly, either the DOJ or the EU Commission, within their respective jurisdiction, actually do substantive antitrust enforcement actions, and actual enforcement actions by those entities are categorically quite different than non-binding resolutions recommending elements that should be sought in such action by the respective legislative bodies.
> My point stands regardless. Show me where the United States Government attempts to force major European or Asian companies to split into pieces.
A non-binding resolution by a legislative body isn't really much of an effort to force anything. Its more of an effort to be seen as engaged without actually doing anything substantive.
> I'd love to see numerous examples of the US Government doing what the EU Commission is doing.
The European Commission isn't actually doing anything here. There are lots of examples of the US Government not breaking up foreign companies.
Conflating the European Commission with the European Parliament is kind of like confusing the US White House -- or the whole of the Executive Branch -- with the US Congress -- and what you are doing here goes another step further, and proposes an equivalence between non-binding action by the legislature and concrete enforcement action by the executive.