Source: https://x.com/da_fant/status/1998090511807381613
Pretty sad.. Europe is quickly turning into a museum for tourists.
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Source: https://x.com/da_fant/status/1998090511807381613
Pretty sad.. Europe is quickly turning into a museum for tourists.
Did you actually checked what the fines are about?
The ones I checked are really reasonable and I would actually highly prefer for those tech companies to comply instead of eating the fine and not comply.
A continent of takers
Just a tariff in another form...
This is pretty wild. In the business of fining foreign businesses.
We should be fining them for their cookie crimes.
EU is a pirate state that is stealing from everybodyEU is great 10/10 would vote again(never voted)this message was redacted by the european commission
this is satire, please random european bureaucrat don't sure me, i am paying a lot of taxes
EU Fines Elon Musk’s X $140 Million Amid Free Speech Clash #1309900
https://twiiit.com/da_fant/status/1998090511807381613
That's a weird graph.
Why include companies like Uber/Apple on the left, but only include internet companies on the right?
EDIT: Also, taxes are paid to the country the company is incorporated. Fines are levied by the EU.
EU has generated higher income from discretionary, ad-hoc, one-off fines to American companies than it has generated from yearly regular European tech businesses.
Probably because European tech businesses try to comply with regulations that protect EU citizens' right.
Probably because the American hyper-mega corporations think they can do whatever they want and get away with it. It works in America because lobbyism is practically legal.
Or because of this
Shht, you're being too reasonable ;)
Do you guys think the $120 M twitter fine is protecting EU citizens rights?
What worries me the most is that people are protecting a billionaire that hate-cried on its own platform. Hate fabrication just because said billionaire failed to comply with basic transparency.
Blue checkmark is not deceptive at all. Outside of the first few months of people complaining about the clear change in policy, it has long been clear that the purpose is to levy a monetary cost on posting to attempt to limit bots, similar to here and other older concepts on charging for email. IG now has the exact same thing. The old blue check verification system was completely corrupt and non-transparent at all, people paying insiders for checkmarks etc.
I hate half of the toxic stuff that's posted on X but it's the best free speech major social media platform and that's why I paid for a blue checkmark on day 1.
Yeah, I didn’t like the previous blue check either. What prevents bots or deceptive profiles from buying a blue check? I mean the real problem is that you can now buy a blue check. There's no verification involved, and everybody can create a new disposable credit card if that's the verification
meta has been fined for that too, heavier than X’s fine
That's not what the graph says: it only includes European internet companies.
Apple were fined around $2 billion?
It's under appeal. They might not end up paying it.