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I worked at these places. This is pocket money. Cost of doing business.

• bjornasm 3y ago
  Its pocket money untill other european countries follow.
• JumpCrisscross 3y ago
  > I worked at these places. This is pocket money. Then you weren’t in a budgeting role. Multiple heads in Facebook’s Norwegian office will be on the line if they lose a double-digit fraction of profits. If you want headlines, go big and risk losing in court. If you want results, be smarter. The way Oslo is playing it, this looks smart. They’re keeping it local to avoid jurisdictional challenges. And instead of a Vestager-Khan populist swing for the fences that entrenches both sides in litigation for years, it gives Meta a reasonable opening to actually change its behaviour in the short run.
  • gmerc 3y ago
    As ex facebook - no, that’s not how it works. they’d be lucky to even have multiple heads in Norway and all the shots are taken in MPK anyway. These fines are act of god in their eyes, a tiny spec in a sea of money. Nobody ever gets fired for adverse policy environment, that’s bad fanfic. Unless you throw an executive to prison like Brazil or force temporary shutdown like India or leverage three digit million fines like the EU … it’s all pocket money.
    • JumpCrisscross 3y ago
      This contradicts how a few folks I know there ran their layoffs, but totally aligns with their psychology ca. 2021. Could this come down to higher rates? Also, if Facebook volunteers to pay a 100%+ effective tax rate in Norway…that seems fine for Norway?