• ieatpwns@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    That’s a slap on the wrist feather tickle on the wrist for alphabet what the actual fuck

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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    1 day ago

    Imagine breaking the law and making $244.50 as a direct result, then having to pay $0.036 as a fine. Would you even notice?

    Edit: $244.50 is a normal human representation of the gross profits google made about the time of this crime (2020-2021), except in billions.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    How about you jail the Google and Telco execs that signed a deal that broke the law?

    If I break the law Ingo to jail, if an exec at a company does It, they get levied a small tax.

    What. The. Fuck.

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      20 hours ago

      Sorry, corporations are only legally ‘people’ when it suits them - like when paying bribes contributing to SuperPACs and lobbying. If it doesn’t suit them, like with crimes, then suddenly… nobody is responsible.

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      1 day ago

      Strange how the powerful’s chosen candidates whose campaigns they fund have tended throughout history to not pass legislation the would have consequences for their funders. It almost makes me want to go out on a limb and say the system disproportionately benefits the wealthy at the expense of the poor who can’t just buy their way out of consequences.

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    2 days ago

    Nice, another slap on the wrist. Rounding error type of money will never change their behavior

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    2 days ago

    Its the tax on human ip trafficking, it won’t stop Google from using us as cash pits to advertisers