• floofloof@lemmy.ca
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      You can’t fine him an amount he’d care about. Beyond a certain amount of wealth, fines are no longer a punishment or a disincentive.

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        In many cases, I would agree, but the article says

        If Twitter does not respond, it faces fines of $687,000 a day.

        We’re not talking about a single payment for a fixed amount. I think he’d actually care about this. It would add up fast if he tried to ignore it.

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          Google tells me his net worth is $234.4 billion. That’s enough money for 341,193 days of fines, or just over 900 years. So no, he probably won’t care

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            Even if the fine were to reach half of what he spent on Twitter, he would have to pay them $687,000/day for longer than the average life expectancy in the healthiest country on earth (87 years). A billion is such an absurd number.

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            Wow?! So it’s basically in the region of a normal person paying about 10-20 cents fine a day or the cost of a cup of coffee every month or two.

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          Yeah, and he’ll never be able to go down under again. I’m not sure what he thinks of Australia, or if he’s ever been here. But that’s one less potential holiday destination for him in the event twitter gets convicted.

      • dark_stang@beehaw.org
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        In some places, fines are based on income or wealth. Like speeding tickets in Finland. So hopefully it’ll happen and he will feel it.

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    1. Thanks for posting a non-paywall version.
    2. Wtf, Twitter’s standard automated reply to press queries is a poo emoji now?