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    3 years ago

    Fines like these should be exponential in some way, that way they can’t keep getting away with it.

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    3 years ago

    Not enough. The price for violating a human right should be enough to leave anyone bankrupt.

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    Besides panicking a few regional managers, this can only be a bad news for Meta if other countries, or even better, the EU follows them.

    100kUSD/day for a 5.4M inhabitants country, that scales to 8.3M$/day for the total 450M inhabitants EU has (yes: I know that’s not how it works, I’m doing a very gross approximation here).

    That’s would be 3B$/year. Now we’re talking!

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    3 years ago

    This is exactly the sort of thing I want governments doing. Let bad businesses fail! Help them down the drain, even.

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      As much as I hate Meta, this is just going to become a “cost of doing business”. They have $32B in yearly revenue, this would cost them $36.5mil a year, a small drop in the bucket to what they bring in.

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    For those who are dumb like I am, the fine is one hundred thousand per day and not one hundred per day (the decimal threw me off)

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      If people want to use thousands separators (and they should, if they want to not-use prefixes like kilo, Mega) they should use ’ so for example 100’000 $. Zero potential for misunderstandings.

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    3 years ago

    What would facebooks reaction be if they had to pay the full amount of taxes without ways around it?