Who do you think was providing all that money that bribed EU reps to vote for the Directive? With their server capability and their filtering apparatus, Google didn’t just have a chance to grab half the money in the known world by getting the Directive passed, they had a chance to literally take near-total control of more than half the world’s Internet. When that measure was passed, Jeff Bezos became the de facto Emperor of The Internet. You think Google was sitting on the sidelines waiting to see what happened?
