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theadder
Dec 30, 2011


The Management posted:

"we can do anything, we can improve the lives of all humanity" -- an advertising company

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PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

google play (movies + TV) is on roku now (lmfao???)

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/google-play-movies-tv-roku-devices/

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

sounds convenient

poty
Jun 21, 2008

虹はどこで終わるのですか? あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?
google cars are ogling women fishing for revealing pics to post on google maps

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/10/30/canadian_judge_says_that_google_has_to_compensate_a_woman_whose_cleavage.html

Notorious b.s.d.
Jan 25, 2003

by Reene

poty posted:

5 years later google hasnt accomplished poo poo. they still have the same real products they did back then (well actually they killed reader) and they still make all of their money out of spying on their users without informing them in any way

there's still no proof that the spying actually works. they make all their money off advertising, but all the "targeting" might be (is) total garbage.

google's ad network, where they target users and place ads on gmail or whatever, has been shrinking for several years. presumably because ad buyers are figuring out how garbage loving useless the inventory is

search ads are still a growing business. but there's no spying necessary for search ads. it is basically god's gift to advertising: oh hey show something to a user when they want to see it

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

the EU owns :flashfap:

quote:

New EU Digital Chief Floats Tough Anti-Google Regulations

He’s not even officially in the job yet, but incoming European Commissioner for the Digital Economy, Germany’s Günther Oettinger, seems to be champing at the bit to curtail Google Inc.’s power on the continent.

In a series of interviews this week with German newspapers – themselves very receptive to cracking down on the US tech giant – Mr. Oettinger floated various anti-Google ideas that could take on a more concrete form when he takes office on Nov. 1.

One of these is a reform to existing copyright laws specifically targeting the tech company, in what amounts to an EU-wide “Google tax.”

“If Google takes intellectual property from the EU and works with it, the EU can protect this property and can demand a charge for it,” Mr. Oettinger told the daily Handelsblatt, adding that such a law could be in place by 2016.

Google declined to comment.

A German law passed last year obliges Google to secure rights to publish anything other than links to articles and headlines. German media giants like Axel Springer AG, have pushed for stricter copyright legislation – arguing Google and its smaller rivals unfairly profit from the work of news organizations.

But the German competition authority ruled in mid-October that Google was well within its rights to limit searches for news to headlines and links and was not obligated to share revenue from ads with German media companies.

Mr. Oettinger’s copyright proposal then, should it materialize and pass legal and political muster, would overturn the competition authority’s ruling.

Mr. Oettinger is riding widespread anti-Google sentiment from some manufacturers and media in Europe’s largest economy, who view Google’s expansion into manufacturing driverless cars and providing fast Internet with alarm.

In his parliamentary confirmation hearing on Sept. 29, Mr. Oettinger, said he’d been the lone voice pushing for tougher terms in the EU antitrust case over Google’s search-engine practices.

That deal has now been reopened.

Mr. Oettinger also told German media this week that he’s considering establishing a data protection agency for the EU.

German data protection agencies – widely seen as having the strictest data restrictions in Europe–have been around since the 1970s. Each of Germany’s sixteen federal states has their own agency responsible for regulating how companies handle data of both employees and customers and are not allowed to pass on that information to third parties without express consent.

However, the legislation as currently planned by the European Commission and Parliament has a data protection agency for each of the 28 EU member states – a single one having been ruled out in informal discussions when the legislation was first drafted nearly three years ago.

Mr. Oettinger’s office was not immediately available for comment.

It is unclear how much influence Mr. Oettinger has over the data protection portfolio. The new commission is being substantially restructured and Estonia’s Andrus Ansip will oversee the digital single market , including data protection issues. But that won’t come as much relief to Google, as Ansip has taken a hard line against Google too.

Speaking on the same issue today, Ryan Heath, spokesman for Neelie Kroes, the outgoing vice president of the European Commission responsible for digital affairs, said, “the Commission’s job is to solve market failures and enforce rules, not target companies.”

Mr. Heath added that whole there were issues Google needs to address, “It’s not OK to turn a company into a punching bag and I wouldn’t expect the new Commission to do so.”

Forums Terrorist
Dec 8, 2011

that's going to gently caress everyone, which is why the us will quietly have it killed behind closed doors

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

Yes that would actually be really horrible, just like cremnob

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

google's got obama and cameron in their pocket. they don't have germany and the rest of the EU

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

cremnob posted:

google's got obama and cameron in their pocket. they don't have germany and the rest of the EU

the EU doesn't matter in comparison

Forums Terrorist
Dec 8, 2011

cremnob posted:

google's got obama

i'm just going to stop you right here

Forums Terrorist
Dec 8, 2011

also lol @ "germany and the rest of the EU"

germany, france and the uk ARE the eu as far as anything important goes

"hrm, not sure if we can kill this bill mr president, apple have romania in their court"

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

its true

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

spain and italy have all been passing anti-google legislation as well

Forums Terrorist
Dec 8, 2011

so i guess you're unaware that cameron is having backbencher trouble and will kill anything germany proposes essentially out of :britain:

also spain and italy, lol

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

lol cameron isn't going to save google from this

Forums Terrorist
Dec 8, 2011

howso

maniacdevnull
Apr 18, 2007

FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

I hope Google wins

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

the anti-google sentiment is from the bottom up and isnt just one industry pitted against another. it's popular for politicians to be anti-google, and thats why they're ultimately hosed

Forums Terrorist
Dec 8, 2011

maniacdevnull posted:

I hope Google wins

this because it annoys cremnob rather than out of any particular fondness for them

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

the google tax and data protection laws are just icing on the cake. the search antitrust settlement being reopened and the upcoming anroid antitrust investigation is the real deal

Forums Terrorist
Dec 8, 2011

cremnob posted:

the anti-google sentiment is from the bottom up and isnt just one industry pitted against another. it's popular for politicians to be anti-google, and thats why they're ultimately hosed

cremnob posting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMhwddNQSWQ

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012


don't associate this awesome video, which devo themselves have given their blessing to and called "the most beautiful thing [they] have ever heard", with cremnob

Forums Terrorist
Dec 8, 2011

what'll happen is cameron will make a bunch of noise and merkel will drop the goog bill because no one gives a poo poo

merkel gets to say "welp i tried" and cammers gets to say he stood up to big bad brussels and Saved British Jobs

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

cameron cant stop the antitrust investigations and he cant do anything about national legislation. also lol at t he idea of cameron telling merkel to do anything (and especially about google and not something more important to him like protecting london as the financial center of europe)

pram
Jun 10, 2001
why are you arguing with cremnob

Forums Terrorist
Dec 8, 2011

pram posted:

why are you arguing with cremnob

bored mostly

maniacdevnull
Apr 18, 2007

FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

pram posted:

why are you arguing with cremnob

because google is actually good

Forums Terrorist
Dec 8, 2011

cremnob posted:

lol at t he idea of cameron telling merkel to do anything (and especially about google and not something more important to him like protecting london as the financial center of europe)

you mean "lol at tory backbenchers"

Forums Terrorist
Dec 8, 2011

it's not logical for cammers to butt heads with the eu but the swivel eyed loons are holding his feet to the fire and welp

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

maniacdevnull posted:

because google is actually good

lol

Dubstep Jesus
Jun 27, 2012

by exmarx

maniacdevnull posted:

because google is actually good

there's no need to go to these extremes just because cremnob is posting

theadder
Dec 30, 2011


pram posted:

why are you arguing with cremnob

lol

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

Forums Terrorist posted:

you mean "lol at cremnob"

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
given the choice between google and Germany, I'm probably gonna have to go with the goog.

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
want a euro deamaigned cell phone

Tangra
May 1, 2008

Rrrreligion?

It's the catnip of the purrrrrrrrletariat


Mad about your :10bux: ?

:haw:

echinopsis posted:

want a euro deamaigned cell phone

deamaigned

me 2

Juul-Whip
Mar 10, 2008

cremnob posted:

google's got obama and cameron in their pocket. they don't have germany and the rest of the EU

thanks for this. I've been looking for another reason to hate the poo poo out of David Cameron

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

google's eu problems is why mg siegler is there now so they can show that they're "investing in europe" even tho the piddly amount of money they're gonna deploy on start ups will probably be 90% in london for their silicon valley clone

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Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004


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