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If ever there was a company who was actually a good candidate for the 10% of global revenue fines the EU have talked about in the past it would have to be Apple

by mdhb 2y ago

If ever there was a company who was actually a good candidate for the 10% of global revenue fines the EU have talked about in the past it would have to be Apple. They have gone out of their way time after time after time to be as hostile as possible to any kind of oversight or compliance that was required of them. I actually think this is no shit the ideal case study to finally use those powers.

Dalewyn 2y ago
As someone who disdains both Apple and EU, this is in a way a fun experiment to watch regarding whether corporate entities can actually overpower sovereign entities. It's a setting oft seen in cyberpunk, but so far it has been more fiction than real.
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- consumer451 2y ago
  > but so far it has been more fiction than real. Is it though? We have a system with extremely powerful multi-national companies, and yet conveniently for them, no real system for multi-national regulations. Even just domestically, auto manufactures have a lot of sway in Germany. Energy, telecom, and chemical giants seem to write their own regulations in the USA.