We've established pretty definitively that the EU does not appear to cave 
into US political pressure.

The Oracle <-> Sun case was generally agreed to be a no-problems deal. This 
is the part that confuses the heck out of me: Why are you jumping on the 
OracleSun takeover as proof that the EU can NOT influence US companies? They 
came to the right conclusion. As I said, the EU is not a bond villain; their 
motives weren't to end up stroking their cat, raising their pinky, emitting 
an evil laugh, and crooning: We showed them yanks! muhahahahahah!

*IF* The EU decides they want to stop google or some other company from 
trampling on the privacy rights of EU citizens, I doubt the US political 
machine can stop them from doing it. Will it happen? I have no idea. 
Probably not, there's not much outrage from what I can tell in the EU about 
this.

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