• Maalus@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The exact same ones who have millions in fines racked up and are paying them? Yes, I have heard of those.

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      8 months ago

      You said it yourself: Millions. Not Billions.

      For these companies, paying such a mundane fine is just the business cost of being able to do whatever they want. The execs figuratively (and perhaps literally too) piss out a fine payment every morning before reading the newspaper company whatsapp account.

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        8 months ago

        And you think that lemmy devs / admins being hit by thousands of dollars of a fine is going to go the same way facebook goes? That they’ll be able to ignore it and say it’s a cost of business? The giant corps get fined too. The US companies get fined too (for all the people saying “this EU law, me no care”.