Here's some relevant context:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...nnounced.shtml
Quote:
This also happens to come out the very same day that the EU's digital commissioner, Gunther Oettinger, has announced that the EU should regulate American internet companies to provide a bigger opportunity for European companies:
"The European Union should regulate Internet platforms in a way that allows a new generation of European operators to overtake the dominant U.S. players", the bloc’s digital czar said, in an unusually blunt assessment of the risks that U.S. Web giants are viewed as posing to the continent’s industrial heartland.
|
Of course, a billion or so vig can't hurt.
More at the source.
Me, I'm moving on to another soap opera.