Trump lashes out at European Union's massive Google fine, citing it as evidence that he is right...

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post



Trump lashes out at European Union’s massive Google fine, citing it as evidence that he is right about E.U.’s unfair behavior

By Washington Post Staff

July 19 at 9:40 AM

“I told you so!” President Trump tweeted. “The European Union just slapped a Five Billion Dollar fine on one of our great companies, Google. They truly have taken advantage of the U.S., but not for long!”

Trump is using the E.U.’s $5.1 billion antitrust fine on Google for practices on its Android mobile platform as evidence for what he has been saying about Europe’s exploitation of the United States on a variety of matters, including trade and nations’ contributions to defense spending.

Trump on Wednesday promised “tremendous retribution,” particularly on European-made cars, if the E.U. doesn’t change its trade policies, and he has raised doubts about the U.S. commitment to NATO.

This is a developing story. It will be updated.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/07/19/trump-lashes-out-at-european-unions-massive-google-fine-citing-it-as-evidence-that-he-is-right-about-e-u-s-unfair-behavior/

[lark]

1. Stupid ass has no clue what he is doing.

A lot of those European made cars are also made here and hundreds of thousands of American jobs are at risk if he follows through with this ultra stupid idea.

[Lonestarblue]

2. Google, Twitter, and Facebook are need a review of how they are facilitating global hate.

I just read this article from Bloomberg about how authoritarian governments are using social media to stifle protests and neutralize opponents, including members of the press.https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-government-sponsored-cyber-militia-cookbook/

The state-sponsored hate being spread around the world through social media is truly frightening for the future. They seem to focus on bots to do the work, so I have what may be a crazy question: Why can’t the social media platforms simply disable bots and not allow their use?

[Fred Sanders]

3. Remember when social media was proclaimed as the Great Liberator of suppressed folk?

How is that working out? How did anyone also not that think it would not take long take for the suppressors to simply ban the platform, or weaponize social media for their own means?

[Vilis Veritas]

5. Bot networks controlled by operators much the same as drones.

Only these bot networks use AI to rephrase the main "controllers" comments. 1 to many relationship is the basis of all bot networks. One controller can manage thousands of bots. Knock out a bot network without knocking out the operator and it will re spawn in minutes.

We used botnets 30 years ago to manage chat rooms...lol

[appalachiablue]

4. The EU still enforces anti trust laws, like we used to before Reagan.

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/18/630030673/eu-hits-google-with-5-billion-fine-for-pushing-apps-on-android-users

[Equinox Moon]

6. I had an Android phone and indeed google dominated the phone

Everything was done through google and the phone set-up prevented me from using any other apps or search engine, except google stuff. I could not update the phone unless I had created a gmail email account for them to spy on my usage some more.

EU is correct with what they are doing.

[LittleGirl]

7. Yes, thank you. eom