EPG
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« on: July 20, 2018, 12:38:04 PM » |
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The EU wishes to impose a digital tax. In the absence of consent, it will informally tax American companies. And American anti-trust authorities will retaliate by informally taxing European companies - though they're actually better at anti-trust in general than the German and French Colbertists who flit between industry, politics and public administration. It's a stable equilibrium. The real problem may be that breaking up a hundred Volkswagen plants doesn't have to make the cars worse, but "breaking up Facebook" definitely makes the network worse as it becomes far less complete for its users - advertisers can just dial down their rates.
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