{"id":962764,"date":"2025-09-19T08:29:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T02:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=962764"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:43:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T03:13:19","slug":"german-minister-calls-for-google-to-be-broken-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/19\/german-minister-calls-for-google-to-be-broken-up\/","title":{"rendered":"German minister calls for Google to be broken up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germany&#8217;s culture minister said Google should be broken up, in remarks released Thursday that risk the ire of US President Donald Trump at a time of transatlantic trade tensions.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the Friday edition of Politico&#8217;s Berlin Playbook Podcast, Wolfram Weimer accused Google of &#8220;paying next to no tax&#8221; and of &#8220;giving nothing back to society&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to address Google on all fronts,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Best of all would be to break it up.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany&#8217;s culture minister said Google should be broken up, in remarks released Thursday that risk the ire of US President Donald Trump at a time of transatlantic trade tensions. Speaking on the Friday edition of Politico&#8217;s Berlin Playbook Podcast, Wolfram Weimer accused Google of &#8220;paying next to no tax&#8221; and of &#8220;giving nothing back to society&#8221;. &#8220;We need to address Google on all fronts,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Best of all would be to break it up.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}