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Comment Re:Kinda Funny (Score 1) 61

What's mission in this analysis is any consideration of whether Google was favoring anticompetitively favoring their own product over Klarna.

While there is an argument to be made that the EU has done cash grabs in the past, there is also an argument to be made that Google has acted anticompetitively in the past.

If they act anticompetitively it distorts the free market.

Comment Re:Kinda Funny (Score 0) 61

These countries appear to have the pecuniary extraction model. Go after the deepest pockets, and come up with some way to take some of their money, because reasons.

I understand the sentiment, but as a logical thought it's incomplete without an analysis of reasons. If the reasons are good, Google deserves to pay (maybe the lawyers don't deserve the penalty money, but that's a separate issue).

Comment Re:America's Independence (Score 1) 67

America had a strong isolationist strain since the 1700s. It's a "You worry about yourself, I'll worry about myself" type of attitude. The Monroe Doctrine and the Neutrality Acts are examples. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Currently, interventionists are in control, mainly based on the argument that "every time we try to be isolationist, the war comes to us." Presumably at some time in the future, isolationists will gain power again.

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