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0 pointsp0pcult3y ago0 comments

Would it wreck the legal framework to institute a concept wherein you can appeal, but if, on appeal, the lower court ruling holds, the punishment/fine is retroactive to the date of the lower court ruling?

I.e., make it so that there is no free pass to continuing presumptively illegal activity.

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izzydata3y ago

Wouldn't it be that way already? The punishment even for the whole extended period of time is still often nothing to big tech. Punishments need to be tailored to those being punished to cause equal effect.

mpweiher3y ago

Under GDPR, fines can be up to 2% of annual revenue (not profit) for "less severe" infringements. Facebook had $118 billion revenue in 2021, so that would be $2.36 billion. And I think the fines will repeat.

For more severe infringements, it's double that, so $4.72 billion. Which would be around half of profits for 2021.

p0pcultOP3y ago

I don't know. That's why i was asking.

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