Google loses EU appeal and is fined a record $4B

Re:Google loses EU appeal and is fined a record $4B by Normille on Thursday September 22, 2022 @10:42AM (#32939455)

One of the few areas where I think the US has got it right. No-one should need more than 3 chances to stop being a dick.

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Re:Google loses EU appeal and is fined a record $4B by trasz on Thursday September 22, 2022 @11:06AM (#32939883)

This law results in people landing in jail for being poor: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/cruel-an...

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Re:Google loses EU appeal and is fined a record $4B by dahfizz on Thursday September 22, 2022 @11:25AM (#32940206)

This law results in people landing in jail for being habitual criminals. Being poor does not excuse criminal behavior.

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Re:Google loses EU appeal and is fined a record $4B by johnday on Thursday September 22, 2022 @11:45AM (#32940549)

On the other hand, it appears that being rich does excuse criminal behavior - that is, if you hire a lot of people and get them to work in an office, and they commit crimes, the company gets fined and you don't go to prison (almost always).

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Re:Google loses EU appeal and is fined a record $4B by trasz on Thursday September 22, 2022 @02:17PM (#32942652)

If you hire a lot of people and then steal their wages you don't go to prison either. You can be proven to be a murderer (OJ Simpson) or a child rapist (DuPont, https://www.forbes.com/sites/denizcam/2019/06/14/how-a-du-po...) and you won't get punished if you're wealthy enough. If you are poor, you'll get life sentence for stealing socks. It's not a bug in US judiciary system, it's how the system was designed.

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