t’s Europe that’s led the charge against big tech when it comes to the persistent allegations of anti-competitive behaviour levelled at its monopolistic titans.
This has inevitably created a certain amount of tension with the US, the home of Silicon Valley, where the authorities have largely sat on the sidelines as the EU’s competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, and her team have made the running, handing down multibillion euro fines that are now being appealed.
With the Trump administration’s Department of Justice (DoJ) filing suit against Google, however, there’s the sense of a crack in the damn.
