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105 points

This is like when Dr Evil asks for $1 million dollars after being unfrozen. These courts need to get with the times.

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Should be like GDPR fines: 4% of your annual global revenue.

Edit: just read “It has so far fined Meta a total of 2.5 billion euros for breaches under the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation’s (GDPR), introduced in 2018, including a record 1.2 billion euro fine in 2023 that Meta is appealing”

Wow, Meta really likes donating to the EU

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102 million is a major fine.

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102 million is a major fine for you. For meta that’s less than 1% of their last quarter (which was 13 billion net income).

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If you make $50k/yr after taxes, the equivalent fine would be on the order of about $120.

Where I’m from, that’s a speeding ticket.

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7 points

To put it into perspective, the fine was 0.8% of that net income.

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Not for a company with 120 Billion profits.

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21 points

It is absolutely not, but I understand it’s easy to lose sense of scale when you go into billions territory.

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11 points

This is less than a rounding error.

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