Over the past couple of years, it has been no secret that the corporate giant Google has been charged with millions of dollars in fines. The multi-billion U.S. tech company was recently hit with a brutal $593 million fine by regulators currently residing in France. The fine was reportedly said to be enabled due to the fact that Google had failed to propose and agree upon an equitable agreement for both parties, providing district writers with news content to be displayed on their website.
The controversy began to take place back in April of 2020 when French writers and publishers came up with the idea to discuss a fair deal with editors employed at Google to launch small fragments of their work. These tiny clusters of articles, withholding valuable information, were verbally granted permission by both parties to be displayed inside the news section of the monumental platform. The main problem that France seems to have with the matter at hand is simply the fact that Google, for unknown reasons, came up short on its end of the bargain to seal their verbal agreement by officially putting it in writing with both sides leaving their signature; leaving wiggle room for both sides.
While the decision cannot be undone, the cooperation still has the option to appeal the $593 million (500 million euro) fine but has not been public or at all transparent about if that is what they will decide to do. By the looks of things right now it seems as if they will continue full steam ahead and just pay off the fine. In doing this, Google will be looking over their own beliefs as a representative from the company recently released a statement on behalf of the situation that claimed they are “very disappointed” with the outcome of this supposed simple deal, and firmly feels that they “acted in good faith throughout the entire process.”
However, if this monster of a platform is unable to ‘once again’ hold up its end and fully pay off the fine by the set deadline, the entire tech agency will be suffering a painful payment of $1 million each and every day they miss. Not only will they be charged with an extra million for each day they fail to make their original payment, but they will still have to cough up the initial $593 million that they were charged.