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The power and influence of billionaire tech companies over the government is enormous. Ofcourse workers don't have any rights in america, none is lobbying for them lol, nobody in Washington is fighting for us

• A measure you would normally impose on convicted criminals or terrorist leaders is now being used by the U.S. against these three people:
  • former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, who was responsible for European legislation including on social media;
  • Imran Ahmed, who researches online hate, A US judge has temporarily blocked the detention of British social media campaigner Imran Ahmed, who took legal action against the US government over having his visa removed. Mr Ahmed, a US permanent resident, had warned that being detained and possibly deported would tear him away from his American wife and child. 😳;
  • and Clare Melford, who maps disinformation with her organization.

All three are now banned from entering the United States because they criticize and restrict American social media platforms such as X and Facebook.

• Trumps inauguration lmao
  

Time again for the classic Sam Vimes Boots Theory

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. ... A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. ... But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socio-economic unfairness.

All fines should be at least as much as was profited from the crime.

Fines should scale with wealth. If zuckerberg gets a speeding ticket, he should have to pay millions. Bonus: this might encourage cops to go after rich people instead of poor.

For 8 billion, 190 million is only 2.4%. It's like paying $5 on a $200 ticket, that's 2.5%. Must be awesome to be rich.

At some point it is just bad business to not break the law, the payoffs outweigh the penalties. (For someone that rich)

The larger problem is this encourages the government to let it happen, the citizens get hurt, and then they get a pay day...

Corps are essentially paying our government a penny so they can steal a dollar from taxpayers. It's essentially a tax for theft.

All company policies are like that too. Conflit of interest is only bad if you are low income earner of said company.

laws

The OP screenshot has literally nothing to do with the law. It's a lawsuit by Facebook shareholders, that was settled.

And you know, Zuckerberg can't decide on his own to settle this lawsuit. It was settled, meaning both he, and those suing him, agreed to be paid this amount to stop pursuing the suit.

If you think that amount's too small, you should take it up equally with him and the shareholders doing the suing.

i mean, facebook would go away if everyone just deleted their account, but it turns out most people aren't willing to give up their addiction to fake likes from fake friends for fake validation--not even at the cost of their privacy and being exploited

Would love it if a list of those targeted, or whose accounts were mostly affected by it was released. Hopefully that would seriously fuck him and meta up. But I doubt it.

In fact, they could use some or all of the $8bn to help get those accounts names releases and inform the holders.

The way things are going, the $8bn isn't going be used for extra protection on our privacy online, or mental health affected by it.

Fines as "punishment " for a crime are extra silly to an already silly and oppressive system.

*Zuckerberg