EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager adresses the public during a press conference, in Brussels on July 6, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Aurore Belot
WASHINGTON: Europe’s top antitrust regulator Magrethe Vestager defended her agency’s investigations of Google and other US tech giants, arguing that dominant companies have a “special responsibility” to avoid abusing their market power.
“If you have products that people like and they keep coming, you can keep growing,” Vestager told a forum at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington.
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