EU’s insanity hits a new high – accuses Google of denying “benefits of innovation”

Google, which developed a search engine so good and at such a great price (i.e free) that it totally dominates the sector, was yesterday fined $2.7bn by the European Union’s competition regulators. The EU says Google has broken anti-trust rules by giving its own comparison shopping services “an illegal advantage”.

The EU bellyaches that Google displays adverts of its own services more prominently than those of competitors. Doing so apparently “denies European consumers a genuine choice of services.”

It matters not that consumers pay nothing, zilch, boggerall for Google’s service. Instead, the EU demands competitors get equal access to the US company’s platform. Equal opportunity gone mad – like demanding Ford be forced to allocate equal space in its showrooms to the VW.

But wait, there’s more. The EU also accuses Google of “denying Europeans the full benefits of innovation.” Super rich considering the rules-obsessed, red-tape plastering source. Talk about no good deed going unpunished.

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