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The EU should go further: ban TikTok. And regulate social media to death.
Whoa now, slow down there. Ban some of what TikTok's doing and enforce it fairly? Sure. But let's not actually get more authoritarian here.
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They'll just write bigger golden parachutes into their contacts to offset the risk. That or suddenly everyone is an EVP and the C levels all are just paid fall guys. But 25% revenue might work.
Well add a 3 strikes law [0], after all corporations are supposed to be person, from a legal standpoint. 3 strikes, and the company is dissolved. In fact, this should definitely happen for US credit rating companies which keep on leaking data. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-strikes_law
1st strike blocks you from working as CxO for 5 years, 2nd strike for 10 years, 3rd strike is forever.
Right now too many bad CxO jump from one ship to the next again and again.
So either they've woken up to the same reality the rest of us inhabit, or their inhibition to do their job doesn't apply to Chinese companies...
Is EU the only significant power on this planet that isn't ... for a lack of better word, evil?
The EU is rich and safe and will commit whatever atrocities to maintain it.
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oppress /əˈprɛs/ verb keep (someone) in subjection and hardship, especially by the unjust exercise of authority. I can't agree that TikTok or other recipients of such fingers could yet be considered to be in "subjection and hardship". Nor would I consider the fines so far issued to be particularly unjust.
Large corporations are definitely being subject to *unjust* exercise of authority. "Hardship" on a corporation doesn't really apply at the scale of very large corporations because the "hardship" is spread out among the many, many shareholders and stakeholders of the successful company; of course, it's not to be seen - it's a relatively successfully company being attacked, in comparison to non-successful companies not…
It's fair to take issue with the GDPR itself, or how e.g. the people working at the Irish DPC are selected or something like that. While I have sympathy for criticisms of the system, these are free democratic entities which rule by consent (rather that tyranny) and they're applying law that was written by a great many people across many legitimate institutions. That looks like "justice" to me, unless you feel it contravenes some natural law. If you think it does this, please explain the relevant principle under which you find the fine unjust.
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The EU should go further: ban TikTok. And regulate social media to death.
Whoa now, slow down there. Ban some of what TikTok's doing and enforce it fairly? Sure. But let's not actually get more authoritarian here.
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What sort of fine would you consider not to be a drop in the bucket? This fine looks to be an estimated 1/8 of TikTok's profit in 2022.
An appropriate punishment would be: All children's accounts must be deleted and no new ones for minors allowed to exist for 2 years. Any further infringement and the App is banned from the EU.
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What sort of fine would you consider not to be a drop in the bucket? This fine looks to be an estimated 1/8 of TikTok's profit in 2022.
An appropriate punishment would be: All children's accounts must be deleted and no new ones for minors allowed to exist for 2 years. Any further infringement and the App is banned from the EU.
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> Why can we not put the burden on the parents? You'd like the EU to regulate... parenting?
One thing that I find funny is that when I want to adopt a dog I'm screened meanwhile a drug addict or pedophile can have children no questions asked.
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https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ Ironically, currently 2023 entries.
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Some of these do business in foreign countries, but all of them are unmistakably Dutch.
I've left out the largest news organisation in the Netherlands, the Belgian company BPG Media, but they have bought up a bunch of local news organisations.
Non-EU-originating companies on the list: - Tiktok - locatefamily.com
Tiktok got fined by the Dutch DPA for not providing their privacy statement in Dutch while still doing business in the Netherlands. Further research into Tiktok was transferred to the Irish DPA (this fine). I suppose the Dutch DPA could've lodged a complaint with the Irish DPA for not providing the necessary documents in Dutch, but that seems rather silly to me.
locatefamily.com did not have EU representation at all so there was no need to process the complaint anywhere else. I doubt the fine will ever be collected, but who knows, maybe the owners are stupid enough to open a business in Europe somewhere down the line.