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0xy04/03/20252 repliesview on HN

DMA is applied equally, you say. How interesting! Can you link me to the examples of the EU going after EU companies for DMA violations? I couldn't find a single one. Not a single case, ever.

The EU wanted to fine Google $35,000,000,000 under DMA. That's a backdoor tax. No European tech company faces this scrutiny. Never have, never will -- because the DMA is a tax on the United States.

It's also interesting that the Google and Meta DMA fines are expected to land in the next week. What a timing coincidence, almost like it's retaliatory (as many articles have suggested).


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mopsi04/03/2025

> Can you link me to the examples of the EU going after EU companies for DMA violations?

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_...

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echoangle04/03/2025

Maybe the companies from the EU just didn’t violate the law? How does enforcement prove that it’s a tax?