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Old 11-24-2014, 05:40 AM   #29
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Originally Posted by Billi View Post
I think the background for these actions is not so much an economical but a political one - the actions of your NSA as hinted in this quote from the Reuters article that fjtorres linked to in post 11
The response to the NSA situation is political. If you do not know all countries do this, then you have a lot to learn. The NSA narrative is just a marketing campaign against a country that does it very well.

This is also such a campaign. The EU does not like companies that EU companies cannot compete with. Google has competition in every arena -- it just happens that that competition is usually American.

If google 'enjoys 90% of search' in the EU, that is the choice of European consumers. It's not like Bing, Yahoo, or other search engines are banned.

Frankly, I don't know how you stop this preference given the openness of the internet. I guess the EU could turtle up (like China or Russia), but I don't think its consumers would tolerate that.

I guess they could ban Google hardware. Who does any of this protect?
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