Monopolies are made by government and they can easily be broken by them too

[juan]

On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 16:06:00 -0700
Steven Schear <schear.steve at gmail.com> wrote:

> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/18/eu-fine-google-android-anti-competitive-behaviour-consumers
> 
> Instead of fining Google, if the EU really wants to set and example of how
> to reign in monopolies, they should recind the IP privilege they granted
> Google by stripping them of their copyrights (and perhaps patents).

	strip them of patents, copyright and throw the assholes in jail...for being an arm of the government? Hmmm. Not likely to happen.

	So the government 'fines' google, and google pays using the money they steal from the public. Guess what? among many other criminal activties, google is a tax collector.