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| quote: | Originally posted by TheNobleEu
No, it really isn't -- I think you're still missing the point:
The EU regulations are five times as stringent as the US's; the laws that shackle the US in the EU, simply not being present in the States, gives the EU free reign to dominate the US market while the US cannot do the same in the EU.
The EU can and already has slapped the US with billions in fines and corporate loses.
This is why I chuckled at the notion that 'the EU has to observe US antitrust equally,' quite true in theory, a farsical notion in practice. That's like going from the MLB to the minor A and then asserting one can compare the two on equal footing. 
The USA simply doesn't possess the political will (re: state of and political influence of corporate enviroments) to "catch up" with EU antitrust law.
Cheers,
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Noble you are drawing a lot of analogous comparisons in your attempts to argue. First off what is your representation of the US companies being shackled in the EU, Microsoft? There goes their bank account. I have seen only this case that even delves into the relm of anti-trust and fines coming from the EU for a US company. Microsoft remove WMP, give the competition better access to your underlying technology, which ammounted to the same case Microsoft faced here in the US. Careful in painting too broad a stroke with one brush.
Why would the US even want to catch up with EU anti-trust law. Capitalism baby is the US way, don't have to tell you that.The U.S. has been at this anti-trust thing for a while you know, like since the 1900's thus the forerunners of it as a matter of fact. In fact many in the EU, Germany for example are worried about the US businesses buying up failing German companies and downsizing or relocating within or out of the country. Unlike Europe that insists on trying to keep afloat companies that are uncompetitive and having to pay the enormous social benefits, U.S companies don't even bother with that.
So while the EU regulates the fertilizer you use, the amount of toothpaste in your tube  and whatever else from Brussels and Nice, the U.S. businesses carry on.
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