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YouTube Said to Be Fined Up to $200M for Children’s Privacy Violations

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Re: YouTube Said to Be Fined Up to $200M for Children’s Privacy Violations

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Post by Traster »

vonmoltke wrote: post #97
thathndude wrote: post #96

This whole thing feels like Monopoly money. First, it’s $200m to a company valued at more than $800B. Imagine you had 100k in the bank. That would be like a $25 late payment fee. But on top of that, it’s $200m into the black hole that is our dysfunctional and bloated federal government. How do The Impacted children whose privacy was violated actually benefit. It’s all ridiculous.

> This whole thing feels like Monopoly money. First, it’s $200m to a company valued at more than $800B. > Imagine you had 100k in the bank. That would be like a $25 late payment fee. No, it isn't. A company's valuation is not money in the bank. The proper comparison is to profit.

Alphabet has $125Bn cash on hand.

Re: YouTube Said to Be Fined Up to $200M for Children’s Privacy Violations

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Post by zapzupnz »

notyourday wrote: post #149
zapzupnz wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't believe for a second that this represents the minority. One might be tempted to conjure reddit-like images of Chads and Karens who park their cars where ever, when ever, and for however long they like, but the majority of people aren't like this.

https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/Parking-Violat... That's 11.7M violations for fiscal 2018.

And? What does a page full of data tell me? At a quick glance I can see a lot of violations made repeatedly for the same licence plate; there's no data on whether certain violations are made multiple times by the same person with different vehicles; it's not easy to tell what kinds of violations there are, how much of each, and which are easy to get tickets from unscrupulous parking attendants or which would require actual lack of action by the vehicle's driver or owner… this isn't evidence of anything.

The population of New York may be only 8.5 million, but that doesn't make 11 million infractions an indicator that the majority of those people are the sorts of people to accept parking fines as the cost of owning a vehicle.

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Post by notyourday »

zapzupnz wrote: post #152
notyourday wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/Parking-Violat... That's 11.7M violations for fiscal 2018.

And? What does a page full of data tell me? At a quick glance I can see a lot of violations made repeatedly for the same licence plate; there's no data on whether certain violations are made multiple times by the same person with different vehicles; it's not easy to tell what kinds of violations there are, how much of each, and which are easy to get tickets from unscrupulous parking attendants or which would require…

This actually illustrates that the same license plates get tickets i.e. getting parking tickets is the cost of doing business.

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Post by zapzupnz »

zapzupnz wrote: post #140
notyourday wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not at all. Those who have cars and can afford the fine consider parking fines to be a cost of doing business. Get a ticket, pay it on the web. Now if the car is towed that becomes a problem because just pulling out a credit card does not fix it.

I don't believe for a second that this represents the minority. One might be tempted to conjure reddit-like images of Chads and Karens who park their cars where ever, when ever, and for however long they like, but the majority of people aren't like this.

Ahh, I meant to say "I don't believe for a second that this represents the majority"! Man, this comment makes no sense. Apologies.

Re: YouTube Said to Be Fined Up to $200M for Children’s Privacy Violations

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Post by zapzupnz »

notyourday wrote: post #153
zapzupnz wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And? What does a page full of data tell me? At a quick glance I can see a lot of violations made repeatedly for the same licence plate; there's no data on whether certain violations are made multiple times by the same person with different vehicles; it's not easy to tell what kinds of violations there are, how much of each, and which are easy to get tickets from unscrupulous parking attendants or which would require…

This actually illustrates that the same license plates get tickets i.e. getting parking tickets is the cost of doing business.

That doesn't say anything about whether these people represent the majority, which was my point, though. Not sure why those stats should matter to me.
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