EU’s not waging war against US innovation, we are

Edition: US - Today's top story: EU's antitrust 'war' on Google and Facebook uses abandoned American playbook [Click here to view this message in your web-browser](. Edition: US 14 July 2017 [[The Conversation]Academic rigor, journalistic flair]( Editor's note The European Union recently fined Google €2.4 billion for giving favorable treatment in its search engine results to its own services. Given this is only the latest in a string of antitrust cases against U.S. tech companies, you’d be forgiven for thinking Europe had declared war on American innovation. You’d be wrong. The EU is merely using the same antitrust enforcement practices championed by American regulators for most of the 20th century, writes Georgia State University’s Ramsi Woodcock. In fact, he argues, it’s the abandonment stateside of aggressive enforcement in the 1980s that’s now [hampering U.S. technological progress](. 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