EU Commission fines Google €890 million for breaches of the Digital Markets Act

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1670

For self-preferencing its own services and for putting in place restrictions on businesses to direct consumers to alternatives.

This is a start. These fines need to escalate for continued inaction.

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NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 27d (4 replies)

Wow, that's almost as much as they pay musk monthly for access to the twitter AI

sykul@social.vivaldi.net · 2 pts · 26d (3 replies)

@NihilsineNefas @FallenWalnut Do you have a source for that? I couldn't find one just now.

NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net · -1 pts · 26d (2 replies)

Search for "google pays xai" and you'll get hundreds of results, maybe your search algo is cooked

sykul@social.vivaldi.net · 1 pts · 25d (1 reply)

@NihilsineNefas Silly me. I thought you meant the EU were paying the monthly fee.

NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 25d

Easy mistake to make, I dread to think how much the EU countries are paying into the datacenter pot, that number would definitely be hard to search for