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Google: Paranoid About Android
Facebook and China are a bigger worry than Brussels
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Europe's top antitrust cop Margrethe Vestager should be commended for expanding charges against Google from search to mobile. Few other regulators are keeping a necessary check on Silicon Valley's superpowers.
Yet her efforts to rein in Google's dominance are hamstrung by the slow pace of justice. By the time she imposes fines or restricts how it does business, many of the start-ups, app developers and handset makers Vestager wants to defend will be extinct. On Wednesday, she said Google had breached EU rules by abusing its position with restrictions on Android, its mobile operating system.