Sanctions were applied after the social media platform delayed compliance with a federal search warrant that required Twitter to hand over Donald Trump’s Twitter data without telling the former president about the warrant for 180 days.

    • @zcd
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      431 year ago

      Sure would be nice if some rich criminals went to jail instead of a life without repercussions of any kind

    • @[email protected]
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      It was doubling every day. They were scared of day 15 where it would’ve been 780mil for the day and over 1.562billion total.

      Every day doubling is a really good consequence, the fact that it only took twitter 3 days to comply once the penalty started actually hitting should confirm that

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        It took 6 months, and they got fined because they broke the law. If the company knewkon day one it would face criminal charges for non compliance after a period for appeal we would have seen results months ago.

      • @ewe
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        281 year ago

        Corporations are people my friend

      • DarkGamer
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        241 year ago

        Seems fair. If corporations are legally people, they ought to be able to be incarcerated like people or executed like people.

        • LemmyLefty
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          141 year ago

          I fully agree with this, I’m just not sure what form this would take.

          For execution, a dissolution of all properties, patents, inventory, and all assets seized and sold, followed by barring at least the C-suite from working in the same field ever again?

          • DarkGamer
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            In my mind, incarceration would be a freeze on all their assets and business operations for a fixed period of time. Execution would mean full liquidation as though they were bankrupt, all their IPs become public domain, like you mention. Perhaps with such equality, owners of corporations would no longer wish them to be considered people.

            I imagine a C-suite that caused either of these outcomes wouldn’t be popular with the investment class since it would cost them meaningful amounts of money. A ban might not even be nessicary.

      • @[email protected]
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        201 year ago

        “Who is this Twitter you speak of? My name is X. I don’t know any Twitter.“ - Musk with a fake moustache and glasses.

        • @YoBuckStopsHere
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          31 year ago

          Yeah, it will go back to Twitter again eventually

          • @scottywh
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            41 year ago

            I think more likely it will just go away eventually like MySpace.

            • @YoBuckStopsHere
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              41 year ago

              Sold to Fox Entertainment and primarily abandoned?

              • @scottywh
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                11 year ago

                Sounds about right… I really did think MySpace was actually completely.gone these days though… Last time I tried to visit (before today) I actually got a 404 error.

            • Teon
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              MySpace is now a music artist site, it still exists. It will probably outlast Xitter if elon keeps this up.

              • @scottywh
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                11 year ago

                Hell, I’m surprised… Last time I tried to visit it I got a 404 error.

      • @demlet
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        61 year ago

        Ha, corporations are legally people but can’t be punished as people. I can’t see any way that could be abused.

      • Teon
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        11 year ago

        Probably not, but maybe we could shut them off from the internet.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      Bro, Elon gutted Twitter. I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t have the right people to get this information. I wonder if it sat in a mailbox for a day before they even had someone look at it.

      Twitter isn’t a well run company anymore. This could be pure incompetence.