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I can't tell sarcastic comments from serious ones anymore, deluded wannabe saviors who actually think like that are abound.

One less person on the payroll to generate negative news and internal strife is surely a positive development.

"EU paid Airbus billions in illegal subsidies, WTO rules" https://www.bbc.com/news/business-44120525

Are you litigating the boeing v airbus thing? didn't the WTO rule that airbus is receiving billions in illegal subsidies? And are you suggesting that france doesn't subside specifi…

If my math is correct then most of the companies are American, and by far most of the potential revenue. Considering the rhetoric leading to this tax and the french government's ma…

Even with recent tariffs, US tariffs are still generally low, it's hardly a poster child for "protectionism", the EU has other barriers in addition to tariffs and much of it is due…

That's adorable.

Shouldn't be a long inquiry, this tax is textbook discriminatory trade barrier. If you look at EU policy as france and germany protecting their perceived interests by targeting US …

It's curious how when these people complain about corporations not paying taxes they reliably fail to mention that it's because of R&D tax credits. Not sure how wise it is for poli…

The laws are fine, what we need is to not tailor laws according to selfish political whims or to the whims of publishers and all other inferior competition.

Luckily for Google in the US the grievances of a company's enemies/competitors don't count for much. I'll credit the WSJ for counting themselves among those enemies, but what I fin…

Eliminating tax deductions and the perverse incentives they entail would be a bigger boon than further taxing the successful and fortunate. The problem isn't a lack in revenue the …

Not really, adopting these apps is usually a modest investment on the users' part.

I don't mind the killing off of stuff that doesn't catches on it's a mark of dynamism.

I always thought the name had something to do with it, "google plus" doesn't sound right specially for a social network, also "Hangouts" is a terrible name, it doesn't internationa…

The author keeps conflating the "hate speech" talking points with what this investigation is actually about, it's like they can't help but pad the article with all their google gri…

What's the thinking here? Stopping the merger of the two insignificant players would only shield the major players from real competition.

The NYT is yet to publish a correction to an article publicizing a comically erroneous study suggesting a relationship between Facebook use and attacks on refugees in Germany: http…

No politics talk at work seems to be the rational and only solution here.

"Although the Financial Times’ sources don’t explicitly lay out Google’s argument, it’s not difficult to imagine how it would go." That's hilarious, a fourth party in speculating a…