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Twitter held in contempt, fined $350K over Trump data delay
(arstechnica.com)
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350k is a slap. Criminal charges should be made agaist leaders who ordered the delays.
Sure would be nice if some rich criminals went to jail instead of a life without repercussions of any kind
It was doubling every day. They were scared of day 15 where it would've been 780mil for the day and over 1.562billion total.
Every day doubling is a really good consequence, the fact that it only took twitter 3 days to comply once the penalty started actually hitting should confirm that
It took 6 months, and they got fined because they broke the law. If the company knewkon day one it would face criminal charges for non compliance after a period for appeal we would have seen results months ago.
Can we send Twitter to prison?
Corporations are people my friend
Only for free speech purposes but not for criminal or tax.
that is what they say
I'll believe that when a corporation gets executed.
I'm all for corporate death penalty.
Seems fair. If corporations are legally people, they ought to be able to be incarcerated like people or executed like people.
I fully agree with this, I’m just not sure what form this would take.
For execution, a dissolution of all properties, patents, inventory, and all assets seized and sold, followed by barring at least the C-suite from working in the same field ever again?
In my mind, incarceration would be a freeze on all their assets and business operations for a fixed period of time. Execution would mean full liquidation as though they were bankrupt, all their IPs become public domain, like you mention. Perhaps with such equality, owners of corporations would no longer wish them to be considered people.
I imagine a C-suite that caused either of these outcomes wouldn't be popular with the investment class since it would cost them meaningful amounts of money. A ban might not even be nessicary.
Thats a good start.
“Who is this Twitter you speak of? My name is X. I don’t know any Twitter.“ - Musk with a fake moustache and glasses.
Yeah, it will go back to Twitter again eventually
I think more likely it will just go away eventually like MySpace.
Sold to Fox Entertainment and primarily abandoned?
Sounds about right... I really did think MySpace was actually completely.gone these days though... Last time I tried to visit (before today) I actually got a 404 error.
MySpace is now a music artist site, it still exists. It will probably outlast Xitter if elon keeps this up.
Hell, I'm surprised... Last time I tried to visit it I got a 404 error.
Ha, corporations are legally people but can't be punished as people. I can't see any way that could be abused.
Probably not, but maybe we could shut them off from the internet.
Bro, Elon gutted Twitter. I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't have the right people to get this information. I wonder if it sat in a mailbox for a day before they even had someone look at it.
Twitter isn't a well run company anymore. This could be pure incompetence.
Too bad for them.
Elon is bleeding millions a day at this point - he won’t even know that this 350k ever existed or what it was for.
100% this. This fine should be increased hundred fold at the very least. In the real world someone would be held in contempt of court and jailed. Laws for the common man and piddly fines for the wealthy parasites of the world.
Ugh please leave the pointless predictable pithy platitudes at Reddit