- magnetosphere ( @HappyMeatbag@beehaw.org ) English18•1 year ago
I don’t think it’ll ever happen, but I would LOVE to see Musk detained and fined.
- floofloof ( @floofloof@lemmy.ca ) English9•1 year ago
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.
- magnetosphere ( @HappyMeatbag@beehaw.org ) English14•1 year ago
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.
- AnnaPlusPlus ( @AnnaPlusPlus@midwest.social ) English10•1 year ago
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
- 6fn ( @6fn@kbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
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.
- Mishmash2000 ( @Mishmash2000@lemmy.nz ) English1•1 year ago
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.
- Da_Boom ( @Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi ) English2•1 year ago
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 ( @dark_stang@beehaw.org ) English7•1 year ago
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.
- Butterbee (She/Her) ( @Butterbee@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
Hell he’s such an attention seeker he’d wear the fines as a badge of honour
- curiosityLynx ( @curiosityLynx@beehaw.org ) English12•1 year ago
- Thanks for posting a non-paywall version.
- Wtf, Twitter’s standard automated reply to press queries is a poo emoji now?
- UntouchedWagons ( @UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca ) English3•1 year ago
The poo emoji has been a thing for months.
- Grant_M ( @Grant_M@lemmy.ca ) English9•1 year ago
Great to see!