I love that the EU is cracking down on tech, but I also wish the US government could get in on that awesome rake.
why would they want to anger their global surveillance channels?
Not to mention their donors
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it every time it’s proven again: US consumers get more protection from tech company overreach from EU courts than our own. Our agencies need to have big gnarly angelfish teeth, not this wrist slapping “as long as you share the profits it’s basically legal” nonsense.
That would require political system changes like making party anonymous donations illegal, putting them all on registers and setting max legal amount to $1000 per entity or something realistic. Then change preference system. The list goes on. It’s a system setup to bias corporate and “special” (rich) interest.
There is an opinion that this is what allows corporate and other power to exist legally. Otherwise it’d just all go Al Capone again, not vanish nor diminish.
Google: $2.7 billion
Apple: $14.34 billion
For everything else, there’s Mastercard
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So. Niece and nephew are going for the ol’ aunt. She can take them easily… For now
Ok…but now what forces these companies to actually pay? What happens if they just DON’T pay?
Additional fines and, if necessary, sanctions. If you refuse to pay a fine imposed by the EU then guess what? You can’t do business in the EU any more.
BAN HAMMER
Ban from what exactly?
Almost 500 million users market.
