[HN Gopher] South Korea fines Google $32M for blocking games on ...
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       South Korea fines Google $32M for blocking games on competing
       platform
        
       Author : justeleblanc
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2023-04-11 17:36 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.reuters.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.reuters.com)
        
       | 3np wrote:
       | I dislike this conflation of institutions with nations in the
       | (original) title. Reuters doing this certainly shapes the way
       | many perceive the world.
       | 
       | Better title would be "Korea Fair Trade Commission fines [...]"
        
         | automatoney wrote:
         | The word for this figure of speech is metonymy - specifically a
         | type of whole to part synecdoche.
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totum_pro_parte
        
         | GauntletWizard wrote:
         | I thoroughly disagree, and think its perfectly acceptable for
         | international press to refer to decisions made by government
         | agencies as just the country itself. Not every government has a
         | 1:1 comparison with the US FTC, and just because it's named
         | similarly doesn't mean the Korean FTC operates with the same
         | set of rules or remit.
         | 
         | As a foreigner, you should understand implicitly that
         | governments aren't monolithic entities, but also don't usually
         | need the details on which branch of a foreign government
         | handles what.
        
       | crunchyfrog wrote:
       | I assume they'll be going after Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, etc.
       | now for doing literally the same thing?
        
         | fauxpause_ wrote:
         | Not sure that's true. Seems like this is about Google
         | blackmailing them with App Store exposure if and only if they
         | play ball.
         | 
         | That's arguably different from paying for exclusives.
        
         | akudha wrote:
         | lol, what difference would it make? This is like me getting
         | fined 32 cents, it is just a rounding error for Google
        
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