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That's outrageous.
I demand they make it $100,000,000,000.
this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2025
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In terms of proportion, that’s like you or I being fined a couple of quid.
Do it. The US won't even tell him 'no' ... someone needs to check this nazi asshat.
I'll believe it when I see it
No they didn't it's a ~~bullshit trying ~~
I don't like the law to make an example out of anyone, I would rather see the law being effective and equally applied to all.
Also, these kind of regulations are precisely one of the things Trump and his billionaire bosses are trying to get rid of.
I find the headline a bit click-bait-y and intentionally controversial. I think nowhere did the EU said they wanted to make an example out of X. The NYT report said it. The EU just wants to apply the digital act - as they should
Yeah, any time you punish somebody, you are making an example. So not like they made a law just to apply it to X.
I'd rank my preference as:
(1) law applies equally to all.
(2) law does not apply equally to all, but at least they're honest about it.
(3) law does not apply equally to all, but they pretend it does.
So I guess, depending on if one previously thought (1) or (3) to be true, this is either a deterioration or an improvement.
How is this is an example of (2), and not (1)? Is the law being applied inequally, or is it just that X is breakin it real bad?
the law being applied inequally or is it just that X is breakin it real bad?
Those aren't mutually exclusive. Both could be happening at the same time.
But I didn't even present them as mutually exclusive. Breaking the law is pretty much granted.
How is the law being applied inequally?
How is the law being applied inequally?
The following:
"The fine could surpass $1 billion, one person said, as regulators seek to make an example of X to deter other companies from violating the law, the Digital Services Act."
The motivation of the punishment is ulterior to the crime.
As the goal seems to be show of force, and not simply application of the law, it raises the question: why this company? And it creates a non-coded shadow system of (illegal or not) behaviour/people/companies that need to be made an example of, and (illegal or not) behaviour/people/companies that do not need to be made an example of.
Making an example is what NYT says, not EU. I'm kind of ignorant of the subject so I don't know what an "appropriate" fine would look like, but for the size of X and how bad it is, I'd expect it to be massive even without any ulterior motive.
They're quoting people inside EU working on the case
They can scream and whine all they can, they won't affect internal European regulations.
Anybody else see the X emblem as the Hammerskins neo-nazi symbol in Pink Floyd’s “The Wall”?
