Not enough. The price for violating a human right should be enough to leave anyone bankrupt.
this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2023
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Fines like these should be exponential in some way, that way they can't keep getting away with it.
Nah, exponentiation is too good for them.
Fines should be tetrated.
This guy โโ
Explanation for the downvoters: The double up arrow is the symbol for tetration.
Explanation for dumbs: What is tetration?
2=2
2^2=4
2^(2^2)=2^4=16
2^(2^(2^2))=2^(2^4)=2^16=65,536
Besides panicking a few regional managers, this can only be a bad news for Meta if other countries, or even better, the EU follows them.
100kUSD/day for a 5.4M inhabitants country, that scales to 8.3M$/day for the total 450M inhabitants EU has (yes: I know that's not how it works, I'm doing a very gross approximation here).
That's would be 3B$/year. Now we're talking!