In many ways, babies are like full-grown adults. For starters, both are types of people, but that’s a rather easy similarity, so let’s move on. Both babies and adults get upset when they don’t get what they want, but whereas babies will let themselves feel their emotions, adults will bottle these up or choose to take their anger out via their car horn in traffic. Secondly, when inebriated, adults act almost identically to that of an infant. Both have trouble walking, getting words out correctly, and keeping whatever they put in their body down. Adults and infants are inherently needy, and want to feel constantly loved and supported. The list is rather exhaustive so I’ll just summarize by saying that some people need to act more maturely, and if they cannot do this, it’s just because it’s in their nature to act like babies.
I hope all of that made sense, and if it didn’t, here’s what you missed in the news yesterday.
Europe Doesn’t Trust Google
] However, we’ve come to learn that behind all the glitz and glamor, some tech companies are always up to no good. On Wednesday, the European Commission slapped Google with a a fine for breaching EU antitrust rules. According to the official press release regarding the matter, Google has abused its market dominance by imposing a number of restrictive clauses in contracts with third-party websites which hinders any rival of the Company from placing their own ads on these sites.
In other words, Google has structured the online advertising playing field in their favor.
“Today the commission has fined Google €1.49 billion for illegal misuse of its dominant position in the market for the brokering of online search adverts. Google has cemented its dominance in online search adverts and shielded itself from competitive pressure by imposing anti-competitive contractual restrictions on third-party websites. This is illegal under EU antitrust rules. The misconduct lasted over 10 years and denied other companies the possibility to compete on the merits and to innovate – and consumers the benefits of competition…”
–Margrethe Vestager, Commissioner, European Commission
The European Commission shared that over the course of the last few years, through AdSense for Search, Google has held market shared above 90% in the national markets for general search, making it near impossible for competitors in online search advertising to sell ad space within Google’s search engine results pages.
He’s At It Again
Regardless of one’s political affiliations, we can all agree that President Donald Trump has an affinity for making sure he dominates the headlines on a near-daily basis. This time, President Trump is catching heat for accusing John McCain, the late Senator, of misleading the White House about his vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Let’s make one thing clear, you’re really not supposed to speak ill of the diseased, no matter who you are. Moving on, it was proven that Trump’s claims regarding McCain’s vote on the ACA, back in the day, were false. Now, Trump is getting flack for both accusing someone who isn’t alive, and for doing so in falsehood.
