https://medium.com/@atheist_cvnt/eu-lawsuit-google-fined-5-billion-over-android-anti-trust-violations-2d930ba1a7c

Last Wednesday, the European Union once again took the fight to Google’s elitists with another round of anti-trust fines. The Atlantic reports that for the crime of “denying rivals a chance to innovate” through the Android operating system (OS), used on 80 percent of smartphones worldwide, Google is expected to pay the largest fine in EU history with damages of €4.34 billion ($5.06 billion USD) for their “abuse of marketplace dominance”.

“Google has used Android as a vehicle to cement the dominance of its search engine. These practices have denied rivals the chance to innovate and compete on the merits,” the EU anti-trust chief Margrethe Vestager claimed in a statement last week. “They have denied European consumers the benefits of effective competition in the important mobile sphere.”