The EU’s commissioner for competition, Margrethe Vestager, said Wednesday that Google must pay 1.49 billion euros ($1.69 billion) for stifling competition in the online advertisement sector.
In a statement Wednesday the European Commission said Google had placed exclusivity contracts on publishers, stopping them from including search results from Google’s rivals.
It said these clauses were replaced in 2009 by premium payments and in the same year Google had asked publishers to seek permission on how rival ads were displayed.
Speaking in Brussels, the EU’s competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager said Google had prevented rivals from being able to “compete and innovate fairly” in the online ad market.
You can read the entire story on CNBC.
This comes as a swift action after we complained to the EU Commission on antitrust about Google censoring us and this isn’t even the end.
We will continue to pursue further action against Google until we will not see any more censorship in their search results and until we are invited back into Adsense.
Google must not forget that oppressive monopolies are not accepted in Europe. Isn’t it enough they are a monopoly, they also have to get involved into censorship?
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