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.

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      350k is a slap. Criminal charges should be made agaist leaders who ordered the delays.

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

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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

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          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.

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

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            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?

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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.

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

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

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        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.

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      Elon is bleeding millions a day at this point - he won’t even know that this 350k ever existed or what it was for.

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        100% this. This fine should be increased hundred fold at the very least. In the real world someone would be held in contempt of court and jailed. Laws for the common man and piddly fines for the wealthy parasites of the world.

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      Ugh please leave the pointless predictable pithy platitudes at Reddit