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136·3 months agoLegend
142·4 months agoI don’t think the issues you raise are valid.
It costs more than zero to levy a fine, but we are talking about many billions in income here. Your point would be valid if gathering staff and then fining Google 9 billion were a net zero. It isn’t.
We are likely better off having that money reinvested in preventing other companies from these practices.
Which is what I suggested. The best way to prevent these practices is libre alternatives.
Take some of that money you get fining surveillance-capitalists and use it to fund privacy-respecting libre alternatives
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Fined Facebook €1.2 billion in May 2023
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Fined Facebook €390 million in Jan 2023
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Fined Microsoft €561 million in March 2013
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“fined the company [Google] more than $9 billion for anticompetitive practices since 2017” (2019 article)
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Doesn’t say motive.
Is Britain anti-China?
“Personal responsibility” has nothing to do with politics tho.
I’m all for personal responsibility for myself or.anyone else. But politicians in the public forum should be governing public resources/systems.