I will not comment on the debate that exasperates me . However, France is also very angry with the way Google optimizes (legally) its income to pay very little tax in France despite substantial profits. It's not fair for the politicians and also for the whole population that cannot make such optimization. I think France just wants to hit Google in a manner respecting its own laws.
Concerning the size of the json file with geo path, I don't know if you can rename the attributes, but you can save 300ko just by using simplified coordinates ("-86.411786" becomes "-86.4"). I don't think you need sub-pixel precision :)