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Originally Posted by Billi
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
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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?