For Microsoft and Ms. Floyd, in 2013 the European Commission fined Microsoft in the amount of some €561 million for non-compliance with browser choice commitments. There doesn't seem to have been any violation since. Does that sort of substantial fine teach lessons? We're told that even hundreds of millions of dollars or hundreds of millions of euros—even into the billion-dollar mark—don't discourage the large digital companies. I'm wondering about compliance and the encouragement to compliance by substantial financial penalties, which we don't have in Canada at the moment.
On May 29th, 2019. See this statement in context.