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Google Appeals $1.7B EU AdSense Antitrust Fine (techcrunch.com) 44

Google has filed a legal appeal against the $1.7 billion antitrust penalty the European Commission laid against on its search ad brokering business three months ago. Antitrust officials found that, in contracts with major sites between 2006 and 2016, Google included restrictive contracts that could be seen as it trying to muscle rivals out of the market. The clauses reportedly included exclusivity measures, restrictions on how sites displayed ads from Google's rivals and requirements to give its ads better visibility and more prominent placement.

From a report: Google is appealing both earlier penalties but has also made changes to how it operates Google Shopping and Android in Europe in the meanwhile, to avoid the risk of further punitive penalties. In the case of AdSense, the Commission found that between 2006 and 2016 Google included restrictive clauses in its contracts with major sites that use its ad platform which Commission's current antitrust chief, Margrethe Vestager said could only be seen as intending to keep rivals out of the market. [...] Reached for comment, a Commission spokesperson told us: "The Commission will defend its decision in Court."
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Google Appeals $1.7B EU AdSense Antitrust Fine

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  • by Virtucon ( 127420 ) on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @10:25AM (#58712632)

    If we can't tax Google then be dammed we'll just fine them! - EU Bureaucracy

    • Translating: waaah waaah I don't want to pay my fair share to support the civilisation u profit so much from and come to think of it I don't even want to obey their laws.

      Now kindly fuck off you miserable freeloading still

  • by Anonymous Coward

    Restrictive agreements are in most cases illegal and in many cases have to be lodged and approved by a competition authority.
    We saw Intel/AMD and laptop makers /Mobile phome modems/ Google and Android.

    Enter the lawyers and they say the agreement was made 'outside' the EU or whatever, and for tax purposes, the ad was processed in some tax havenish sandwich scheme. Or its ths much if made in Italy, or this much if made in Taiwan/China, plus rebates paid to other havens.

    The real questin is why competition auth

  • by Anonymous Coward
    Europe needs the money because they are too poor and broken from socialism.
  • Appeal this fine and they'll quadruple the next one.

    It's the EU, baby.

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