1) They stopped it 3 years when their was an inquiry.

2) 2.6% of revenue for a company that isn't even profitable.

3) 2.6% of revenue for a global company, how much of this then is only EU revenue?? Are they supposed to get their legs cut off just for breaking one law of the 5 million that they're suppose to comply with?

4) This was a first offense for this company.

5) They're not doing anything harmful with the data. It's a social media platform. We need to relax. The burden should be on the parents.

>Are they supposed to get their legs cut off just for breaking one law

Yes, they wont learn otherwise.

That is an authoritarian mindset. Do what I tell you, or we'll f*** you. "I am God" follow me verbatim or "we'll kill you."

How else would regulation work?

Certain things in a finite world you can't regulate, and you just need to let go. Some things are too expensive to regulate. For things that actually should and deserve to be regulated, you can first start with a written and formal request to change. Then small fines incrementally. Small being like 100,000 eur in this case, not 345 million - just insane. 345 million is f*** you, eat shit, and die.

They wouldn't even notice 100'000 Euros and so the fine would be useless as a tool of discouragement. The laws have been specified so that they scale with the size of a company. Tiktok it's a big company. They make a lot of money. They can afford the 345 million. They will notice that.

So the fine seems appropriate to me.

I understand the tool of hyperbole, but this is a very flawed hyperbole.

We do have to keep people around if they behave in ways that harm society, but society is not morally bound to keep companies existing despite them misbehaving. They are not living conscious entities. They are organizations created for the purpose of accumulating money. And if they cannot do that without violating the laws, then they should be dissolved.

That's not an "authoritarian mindset". That's just the mindset "the law applies to everyone".

Organizations/companies are serve a purpose of serving society through work. They are inherently unselfish entities.

1) GDRP has been in effect since 2018. It doesn't matter that they were in violation of the law "only" two years - they broke the law.

2) Just because they are incompetent doesn't mean they get to break the law. Why should incompetent businesses be absolved from any wrongdoing?

3) If they want to do business in the EU they have to play by the EU's laws. If they cannot abide by the EU's rules, they probably should not try to make business in the EU.

4) That's why they only have to pay 2.6%.

5) There were multiple breaches that exposed user's data. You might think that exposing user's data is not that serious, the EU has decided otherwise. The burden by law is with the company, not the parents.