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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[–] 59 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

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  • [–] 74 points 3 years ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 33 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 3 years 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.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Can we send Twitter to prison?

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  • [–] 28 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Corporations are people my friend

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago*

    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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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    “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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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, it will go back to Twitter again eventually

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    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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