Re: Let me get this straight
I think you've got this exactly backwards. U.S. companies created services that you Europeans wanted to use, now you're whining that you want the U.S. companies to offer those services consistent with *your* rules rather than with ours. No one forced you to create a Facebook/Google/Microsoft account.
You've got it backwards AC: There have been plenty of European equivalents to all those things, many preceded those examples you gave. They all had to comply with EU law, as is proper. Meanwhile US corporations had illegally been given carte blanche to flout the law and pimp-out their victims as they pleased, thus unlawfully securing what is known as economic advantage. This obvious and illegal mistake has now been corrected... at least for a couple of weeks or so... while the appeasers feverishly draft their replacement fraud...
"The second-best option is a re-negotiated arrangement, said Oettinger, for once sticking to the Commission official line."
Biting the hand that feeds IT
