Google’s profits have soared in recent years. Now the company has been slapped with a fine to match, with the European Commission ordering the company to pay out £2.1bn, having ruled Google favoured its own shopping services in customers’ searches. Despite the huge fine, there’s little sympathy for the company’s plight in today’s newspapers:
The Sun has a surprise in store for readers today – an editorial praising the European Union. The paper backs the European Commission’s fine as both ‘long overdue and richly deserved’. The paper says that the case typifies Google’s ‘arrogance’, and that the search company is also guilty of swerving ’its responsibilities as a publisher’, while YouTube – which Google owns – ‘spreads videos inciting terrorism’. The Sun says that now things need to change and that ‘this fine must be just the start’- calling on countries to follow the EU’s example by hitting Google ‘with vast penalties for every minute of every jihadist video it hosts’.
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