On: A British couple who took on Google and cost it £2.1B

[peteretep]

God I love the EU

[blibble → peteretep]

it's easy to punish a foreign company, the litmus test should be how it deals with a domestic company behaving badly, e.g. VW

it's not looking good thus far

[jacquesm → blibble]

The VW case is complicated further because the German government has a pretty big stake in them.

[toyg → peteretep]

Like all governments, when it wields its power for good, it can be an unstoppable force.

Like all governments, it can be prone to corruption and doing the wrong thing.

In a world of giant multinational superpowers, a giant government is the only hope for "the small guy" to get even. It might not happen all the time, but without these structures, it would never happen at all.

[psergeant → toyg]

It’s structure seems to make it particularly resistant to bribery — commissioners tend to be popular but no-longer-elected politicians

[lumberjack → psergeant]

It is the popular politicians who are corrupt. The unpopular ones do not get elected.

[dazc → lumberjack]

Some unpopular politicians are also corrupt though?