alt Hacker NewsThe fact that this is being introduced after the whole Epic/Apple thing clearly shows that the penalties in that case were not nearly severe enough and the standards set were not nearly stringent enough. The mere attempt to engage in policies like this should result in fines in the hundreds of billions.
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This is why, when fines are imposed on corporations, they should be an integer percentage of their global turn over.
Repeat offenders should be given fines at an exponentially increasing percentage. The more and frequent you offend, the more fines you pay.
I’d also point out in the same observation that they knew better than to try this in Europe and that their strategy of trying to hold large tech companies accountable seems to be working (with the minor caveat that it’s now official US defence policy to try and break up the European Union and US trade policy is extremely focused on the idea that nobody is ever allowed to fine a US company for breaking the law)
> fact that this is being introduced after the whole Epic/Apple thing clearly shows that the penalties in that case were not nearly severe enough
This looks tailor made to navigate the Epic v. Apple ruling's contours.