Just one of these doesn't include a US company (surprise, surprise).
CNN is not the only news outlets that won't question that obvious and peculiar pattern, perhaps it has something to do with their CEO (like most media CEOs) asking regulators to go after Google/Facebook: https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/cnn-jeff-zucker-google...
Google could develop an open source project, relinquish all control and not even try to make money from the thing and people would still find fault and malice in it.
Whatever is open source about Android is good enough to produce the Fire devices and the bulk of the Chinese smartphone market.
But never mind all that the fine wasn't about which parts of Android are open source, the fine was predetermined, they just worked backwards and they didn't even come up with convincing reasons because many people are already convinced that tech firms are too big and Google is evil. The fine is a result of the mandate to the EU commision to penalise and hamstring US tech companies.
Don't let anyone tell you that spreading FUD and misinformation doesn't work, Google has every right to do whatever they want with a domain they own but DDG kept pushing the conspiracy theory that it's all about them and it worked.
It's hard not to make the connection between this example of a clueless self entitled tantrum and the naked resentment towards a US rival by a euro bigwig complete with the instinct to seek government subsidizes and assistance against said US rival with the scrutiny US technology companies are receiving in the region.
Right, so Google develops Android at great expense, they release it as an open source project and now they’re supposed to make even less money from it?
If you think you see similarities between this fine and the microsoft case you should also consider the differences.
For all intents and purposes the market is split 50/50 between Android and iOS, and the fact that Android can be competitive with iOS is largely due to Google’s conditions, as by ensuring quality and consistency they spared Android from the fate of the desktop linux and turned it into a mass market product, not to mention the whole free and open source thing, which is a big deal that is seemingly being brushed aside (what about all the forks?!).
In any other context finnig an open source project for antitrust violations is absurd.
They keep hitting Google with these record fines as there is no political cost for hammering Google in the EU it’s all profit, they get fawning headlines from an approving press and quench the bloodthirst of the politician there who don’t even try to hide their distaste for US tech firms and Google in particular (try and look up their quotes), they can talk up the benefits of free trade all they want and complain about this tariff or that but there is no denying that much of what the EU does is try and hamstring US tech companies.
Most likely they just want a federal law to deal with instead of having to make unworkable carve-ups for illinois and texas.
This unsurprisingly provided an ideal preamble for the NYT to try and reinforce the unsubstantiated claim that tech firms swayed the election and salivate about how this might open the door to further regulation. To keep things overboard newspapers should provide a disclaimer that they are reporting on business rivals when they write about tech firms.
The EU is targeting US firms as a protectionist measure, you can read transcripts of their politicians' grandstanding and parroting local lobbyist to get the picture, they're not shy about it.
I really don't understand the self destructive desire to domestically pile on our tech firms while they are being shutout of the Chinese market by the government there which apparently appreciates the importance of these firms so much as to support their local companies financially, politically, and intellectually and on the other front the EU is using every tool at its disposal to hamstring US tech firms.
Some comments here and elsewhere indicate that some pitchforks wielding folks are conflating this issue with the outcomes of recent political contests, the source of this confusion is poor-old media companies that keep feigning powerlessness while conveniently pointing the finger at business rivals.
How is infinite scrolling not just a logical evolution of regular scrolling? and using red for notification indicators isn't just a design convention that was borrowed from the real world?
All these outlets reporting on social media/app/smartphone addictions should really consider mentioning that these theories aren't supported by research but mainly the melodramatic testimonies of former employees with messianic complex.
Certain people have determined to catch google in the wrong here even if that isn't the case so they are conveniently framing the situation and omitting key details.
Not to mention that having the user abdicate all responsibility to their actions in any situation is infantilizing and stupid.
> 'I’m pretty sure that no one who took a job at Google thought, "I’m going to work for a defense contractor."'
This person can't possibly speak for all other employees. There are many people who got interested in tech at least partly from exposure to popular scifi tropes such a weaponized robots.
That is the problem with this kind of reporting, they seek and only publish the people that confirm the editors assignments; the disgruntled ex-employee or the self promoting activist and they avoid putting things in perspective and show that these "movements" are minuscule in the scheme of things.
How do they define what "selling personal data" means? Does that mean the the law affects equifax and not facebook for example? and what if a company which collects data is sold to another company or its assets were sold during bankruptcy does that count as selling personal data?
Idiocy. The motive is to hamstring some of our most innovative companies which by itself is baffling and of course the collateral damage is the extra overhead and lawyers inflicted on all businesses big and small.
The desire to imitate the euros in their efforts in making it as hard as possible for our companies to operate there is beyond stupid.
California ballot initiatives like all referendums must be eradicated and the fact that a california real estate developer (the source of all that is wrong in the state) straight after killing recent zoning reform is using a ballot initiative to blackmail the assembly into passing this law makes it worse.
I don't care what you're 'leaning' towards or what you can do without, this is about what's good for the nation.
This kind of legislation is not pertinent to the average citizen and this whole debate is being conducted in an environment of hysteria around the cambridge analytica episode which is being fueled by political opportunism.
CNN is not the only news outlets that won't question that obvious and peculiar pattern, perhaps it has something to do with their CEO (like most media CEOs) asking regulators to go after Google/Facebook: https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/cnn-jeff-zucker-google...