| CURRENT EVENTS BREAKING: EU hits Google with a record antitrust fine of $2.7 billion

[TerryP]

 

[TerryP]

First question, first.

I'm wondering where this group is...the group that's sitting there, making decisions about Google, and all the while they seemingly don't know how it works? <confused>

 

[TerryP]

Second thought: Why did the EU choose Google versus Amazon? If I'm reading this correctly and it's the actual placement of specific products that's the issue, isn't that the very core of how Amazon works?

 

[TerryP]

Third question (perhaps the most important, or ironic, or maybe just coincidental.)

The government passes legislation allowing search companies (like Google) to track our habits and use them for marketing purposes. The search company (like Google) takes the information they are allowed to retrieve, and uses it for marketing purposes.

If this serves to bring net neutrality back into the conversation it can't be all bad.