Nice, another slap on the wrist. Rounding error type of money will never change their behavior
Google has agreed to pay $36 million fine for signing anticompetitive deals with Australia’s two largest telcos that banned the installation of competing search engines
Submitted 4 months ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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dinckelman@lemmy.world 4 months ago
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
They probably earned more from it that they are paying here
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 4 months ago
Imagine breaking the law and making $244.50 as a direct result, then having to pay $0.036 as a fine. Would you even notice?
pappabosley@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
The likely have enough in petty cash
radiouser@crazypeople.online 4 months ago
approximately 1.66 thousandths of a percent of Google’s worth. They’ll feel that one…
Aneb@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Its the tax on human ip trafficking, it won’t stop Google from using us as cash pits to advertisers
biotin7@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Charge them billions
ieatpwns@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That’s a
slap on the wristfeather tickle on the wrist for alphabet what the actual fuck
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
How about you jail the Google and Telco execs that signed a deal that broke the law?
If I break the law Ingo to jail, if an exec at a company does It, they get levied a small tax.
What. The. Fuck.
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Sorry, corporations are only legally ‘people’ when it suits them - like when
paying bribescontributing to SuperPACs and lobbying. If it doesn’t suit them, like with crimes, then suddenly… nobody is responsible.pdxfed@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Strange how the powerful’s chosen candidates whose campaigns they fund have tended throughout history to not pass legislation the would have consequences for their funders. It almost makes me want to go out on a limb and say the system disproportionately benefits the wealthy at the expense of the poor who can’t just buy their way out of consequences.