Latest ruling: fine 4.125 billion euros!What's wrong with Google?

The EU judicial institution EU general court rejected Google on the 14th and ruling Google's use of Android operation systems (Android) to "illegally set up" mobile phone manufacturers and mobile network operators, and should be fined 4.125 billion euros.

The European Universal Court of Luxembourg announced the ruling on the same day. In 2018, the European Commission, as a regulatory agency, found that Google has used the dominant position of the Android system in the EU market since 2011 to seek unfair competitive advantages for Google search engines, and decided to punish Google 4.343 billion euros.

Google expressed his dissatisfaction and hit the "lawsuit" to the EU court. The ruling on the 14th stated that the EU courts widely confirmed that in order to consolidate the leading position of search engines, Google "illegally set up" mobile phone manufacturers and mobile network operators, but considering the severity and period of illegal behavior of Google, to Google, Google It is advisable to punish 4125 billion euros.

Specifically, the ruling supports the key allegations of the European Commission on Google. With the use of Google Application Stores, with the help of these "pre -installations", Google strengthened its search engine dominant position, but damaged fair market competition with improper means.

After the announcement on the 14th, Google continued to explain dissatisfaction and criticized the ruling of the EU general courts to be "disconnected" with reality; according to EU laws, Google could file a lawsuit with the European court of the EU's highest judicial institution.

In recent years, the EU quoted antitrust regulations and aimed at the Internet giants such as Google. In 2017, the European Union determined that Google used its search engine to dominate, manipulate online shopping comparison search results, and then quoted netizens to its own shopping service, fined Google 2.42 billion euros; in 2021, the EU general court also rejected Google's appeal, and 24.2 24.2 24.2 24.2 24.2 100 million euros have remained unchanged.

In addition, in 2019, the European Union determined that Google took advantage of its search engine to dominate, to restrict third -party websites to show the competitors' search advertisements to suppress opponents, and fined Google's 1.49 billion euros; afterwards, Chanware filed a lawsuit with the EU general courts. ruling.

Source: China News Agency

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