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If you're asking, is @Google tracking our every movement??
Yes!!
is it right to do that??
#GoogleMaps #GoogleHearing #google
My wrap on final session of #GoogleHearing.
Google went hard on benefits Android has created, creating platform that spurred competition. It said it has right to promote Android & not rest on its laurels.
EC said: G “gave itself the laurel wreath before race had started”/1
The #GoogleHearing drawing to an end today should not distract from what governments all over the world already know: Google unfairly leveraged its power to achieve dominance in search, robbing people of their right to easily choose the services they want to use.
All done. #GoogleHearing at EU court ends.
A round of closing arguments by all sides. Some back slapping on how thoughtful & kind & hard-working everyone has been.
"Now, it is up to us," says presiding judge Anna Marcoulli who toodles off to write the judgment.
All done. #GoogleHearing at EU court ends.
A round of closing arguments by all sides. Some back slapping on how thoughtful & kind & hard-working everyone has been.
"Now, it is up to us," says presiding judge Anna Marcoulli who toodles off to write the judgment.
#GoogleHearing winds up today. Closing arguments from @Google and @EU_Commission
This will be a set-piece affair & judge already indicated last night he’s done with questioning. So, it’ll be more like:
Last volley from #GoogleHearing today & it was important.
EU judges wanted to know: if we side with Google on one slice of their case does it destroy the whole @EU_Commission #antitrust decision?
Essentially, court is exploring the prospects of a partial @Google win /thread
#GoogleHearing is nearing an end. Judge wants to know if Google and @EU_Commission want to do their final pleadings now and we all go home tonight. Or come back tomorrow for the final huzzah (as the schedule says). "Are you homesick?"
Google says: "We wish to make it tmrw."
Break for lunch in #GoogleHearing at ECJ. Here's what happened this morning:
- Google argued that EC introduced new elements into its investigation (an AEC test) & because it did this in a letter instead of a charge-sheet, Google couldn't have a private hearing on it /1
Day4 of #GoogleHearing is upon us: they'll discuss procedural irregularities & the mega 4.34bn fine.
On procedure:
- Google says EC should have sent it formal charges (and not a so-called Letter of Facts), since this would have triggered a right to a closed-doors hearing. /1
Day 3 of #GoogleHearing has wrapped up.
P.M was devoted to the anti-fragmentation rules which Google says ensured "compatibility" on #Android platform & developers loved it.
EC said: nope, they stopped companies like Amazon developing new devices/platforms (such as Fire) /1
Danish judge Frimodt Nielsen running the #GoogleHearing is hugely self-effacing. Makes lots of apologetic "sorry, if I've got this wrong" & "please forgive me" comments.
On Day 3 of the case, @Google & @EU_Commission not really buying this.
Judge has clearly got 3 brains. /1
Day 2 is over at #GoogleHearing in EU court.
Final little flurry of questioning went to the issue of Google's search engine being "superior" to rivals, and that was why users liked it. Not because of any #antitrust restriction on Android...as the argument goes.
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"All roads lead to Chrome, not Rome" -- EU judge making a little joke about @Google when asking about the business model of attracting search traffic. #GoogleHearing #antitrust
#GoogleHearing update: Day 2 a.m. passed without any fireworks. Both sides explained why pre-installing matters or not. EC says: consumers use what their phones come with. Google says: anyone can download rival search/browser in a jiffy.
The judge felt his way into the topic /1
Back after lunch at #GoogleHearing, and Google takes apart the @EU_Commission finding that it dominated the market for licensable operating systems. Its lawyer Nick Levy of @ClearyGottlieb says EC ignored Apple constraint; failed to understand how users see operating systems./1
My goodness! @SenBlumenthal provides 2 excellent (& specific) descriptions of Google's conduct that are *both* forms of "fraud." Yet Blumenthal continues w/the Senate's deferential use of the term "market power." Good lesson; big is treated better. #SenateJudiciary #GoogleHearing
.@SenBlumenthal notes that G makes rules & acts on both sides of the exchange, observed by no one. Note to readers: "conflict of interest" + "no transparency" are the defining characteristics of fraud. No one at today's hearing will say this. #SenateJudiciary #GoogleHearing
.@HawleyMO: "In order to advertise on (either platform), you have to use a Google ad platform, that gives you an enormous advantage in this ad stack that you control every layer of. People come to you on the supply side and the demand side."
#AntitrustHearing #GoogleHearing
.@HawleyMO to Google exec Don Harrison: "I understand that in your universal search aspirations, you want every search in the world to be conducted on Google."
#AntitrustHearing #GoogleHearing
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