German court orders X to hand over election data in legal blow to Musk’s platform
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It's not like the EU can't look at Brazil and see how to handle Musk.
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propably just doing things by the book without thinking or their legal system doesnt have a way to fine billionaires.
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Me-first politics is so convincing to so many people. And so easy to manipulate to benefit the powerful.
In America, Republicans I know would call Trump’s tax a great achievement because they got $50 a month in tax breaks. Meanwhile corporations and the mega wealthy were the only ones really benefiting from it.
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Legal penalties are often (mostly?) a set monetary amount. We need percentage penalties.
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Can't find any proper information anywhere (someone link me the judgement) but that sounds like "you were supposed to file stuff in triplicate now we have to copy shit, here's a fine" territory.
Here's the press release of DRI itself, they don't even mention it.
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A fine does not mean you get to keep doing it. Initially it just proves that tasking 4 people to just get the data would have been cheaper. Now he needs to do that and still task the people.
Next step is escalating if they do not comply. They did the same in Brazil escalating all the way to turning off Twitter.
I guess what I'm saying is "patience grasshopper"
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You misundertand. Legal fees are not there as punishment, they are only there to prevent poor people for looking for justice.
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Most governments are designed, intentionally, to move at a snails pace.
Historically this is a good thing. You don't want waves of populism leading to super powerful leaders that turn the government on its head their first week in charge.
But our society is advancing way faster than we did historically. My kids world is a totally different one than mine...my world is totally different than my parents...their world is totally different from their parents. Before that, the world didn't change that much in a generation or two.
As a species, we have to figure out a better way to work together than nation-states while also being able to smooth out the wild emotions of the general public. We have real-time information and communication now. We have the entire sum of human knowledge in a pocket-sized device. We need an overhaul....but not like this.
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Wow that's fucked. The German government is mad that a private company won't help them spy on their population. Europe is rapidly descending into barbarism.
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Me: *tries to read source*
Source: "No, you don't." *blocks*
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As of now it's just a small thing. If X keeps denying the requested information the penalty can increase quickly by for example by setting a daily late fee of several million Euro. If X still doesn't comply they can raid their German offices for the requested information. If X still doesn't comply they can shut X down in Germany, maybe even in all of EU to force compliance.
But usually you don't need the extreme stuff.
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Wtf arr you talking about
No, nevermind, I don't care what your weird-ass spin is
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What is your definition of barbarism?
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Their comment history is literally just Fox News. Covers the full gamut from trans athletes to Hunter Biden conspiracies. I didn't know these people existed on Lemmy
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Brazil's dictator-judge only had free reign last year to do what he did because the US used to have a living corpse as the president. Now, with Orange-Man-Bad as president, I don't know if the same judge would have the guts to block X nationwide again. Especially with Trump showing he's not afraid to impose tariffs on a whim.
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Which flavor of shoe polish do you like most?
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Any flavor that would send Alexandre de Moraes to the jail cell, his rightful place.
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Humm. This is very 'tread on my harder, daddy' of you to say.
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Especially with Trump showing he's not afraid to impose tariffs on a whim.
Yeah I dunno 100% what comes imported from Brasil off the top of my head...Oh, my favorite coffee beans come from there!
But boy oh boy are we U.S folk excited , thrilled even, to (checks papers) have handbag-baby-man frivolously attempt to bully other countries by threatening to (paper flip)...
Punish us with even higher prices on goods and more foreign disdain. . .?
Bros...I think we're hostages but the hostage taker doesn't understand countries or economics. Plz help I think it's pretty clear this guy has a hate-boner for Americans.
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Nobody cares about Trump's tariffs, it's the US import companies that have to pay, not the foreign companies selling the imports, and they just pass those costs on to the American consumer.
