Vampire [any]
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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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2·9 months agoSure, sure… your toothbrush is in a geopolitical conspiracy with millions of other toothbrushes… I’ll just type that up on my invisible typewriter
Those ones win you entry to the chocolate factory
I noticed I just didn’t say anything
Actually it’s just called ‘Linux’
This misrepresents how mass surveillance works.
It’s high-throughput big-data processing. It’s not a lad sitting in a room watching you specifically.
powerful posting.