EU set to limit Apple and Meta fines to avoid ire of Donald Trump (www.ft.com)

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[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 86 points 2 years ago

Cowards, who cares about Trump’s feelings.

[-] gon@lemm.ee 31 points 2 years ago

Nobody cares about Trump's feelings; but the EU should care about the very real consequences of a trade war on its citizens, as well as the citizens of the US. This stuff has consequences beyond one guy's feelings.

Agreed that they're cowards, though.

[-] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

Trump is gonna do what he wants either way.

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 2 years ago

What about the consequences of letting American companies destroy Europe?

[-] lennee@lemm.ee 72 points 2 years ago

Well that’s just embarrassing. I will remember this.

[-] Mihies@programming.dev 19 points 2 years ago

Add another stupid EU decision "bowing before Orange" to the huge pile.

[-] molten@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago

As an American: fuck the US. Tax and fine the shit out of us. I'll go hungry for a bit if it means real consequences for these pieces of shit.

[-] dumnezero@piefed.social 25 points 2 years ago

We need to start shaming businesses and people who have "social media" on those platforms, like with X-Twitter.

[-] ctrl_alt_esc@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 years ago

How can they just "limit the fines"? Aren't they set by a court?

[-] huppakee@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

No i think it's more of a commission/ institute that fines them.

[-] ctrl_alt_esc@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Ok, I would have thought they are somehow legally binding nonetheless

[-] huppakee@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Would be a lot better if these were public cases with public hearings, I agree. I believe they do their research like a detective would, and then decide for themselves wether EU citizens were hurt and if so what percentage of the company would scare them enough to change their behaviour. There are laws on the maximum penalty and such, but weirdly enough these antitrust cases never seem very transparent to me.

[-] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 years ago

WTF?

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