Compare with $18 billion settlement with US states
replyhttps://www.theweek.in/news/biz-tech/2026/08/27/meta-settlem...
It's peanuts compared to the damage
replyTech companies are more than welcome to not actively break the law while raking in billions of profit from EU customers.
replyOr leave the market altogether. Society here would be better off without Meta, for sure.
Indeed. The rise of Meta and the downturn of society seem highly correlated.
replyI always blame iphone (here come the down votes). Appified the web. Brought everyone online who wasn't already online, causing everything to be dumbed down and sterilized. Absolutely accelerated the commercialization of the web, though that was already in motion for a while. Normalized lack of control and agency over electronic devices. It's always celebrated for bringing the web to everyone; that's the worst thing it's responsible for aside from the slave human labor used to make them.
replyintroducing the public to the Internet was the first mistake
replycant think of any other pool shared by walks of life as diverse as us, North Korean hackers, grandmas, school children, actual criminals, actual activists, mom n pops, mega corp businesses, big banks, small credit unions, governments / spies...
There is a never ending set of regulations in Europe so they could hypothetically just keep doing this indefinitely.
replyThe vast majority of regulations are poorly enforced in most countries because they require extensive administrative efforts and legal costs, while politics push them to focus on the new boogieman. But if a government wants to find something against you they can. There's a large short term financial incentive with these ones.
No, Meta just intentionally breaks the law because they think they earn more money that way.
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