EU to make more money from fining US tech companies than taxing its own

https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/2080314960656159018

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zonico@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 23d

Good

Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 22d (1 reply)

If those companies wouldn't break our laws, we wouldn't get so much money through fining them.

architect@thelemmy.club · 0 pts · 21d

Right but they don’t stop and your countries are shaking hands with these people so what you’re going to end up with is a worse America after your politicians get so rich they can pretend you’re an ant.

That money isn’t going to the working people of any country.

fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com · 6 pts · 22d (1 reply)

Jesus twitter is unreadable

TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 22d

there really is a twitter for everything

xyro@morbier.foo · 2 pts · 21d

No sources for the stats sadly

nodiratime@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 22d

Now tariff the shit out of them - or rather, the customers/enablers.

StillAlive@piefed.world · 1 pts · 21d

Which flag is this

quick_snail@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 22d

Link to article?

cockmushroom@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 19d

Must be nice when you know how to tariff without tariffing

VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 21d

Going to call a huge bullshit for this. This was made by a pro-US tech company to allow them to walk all over Europe.

The key thing: That's if you can collect.

Tech companies shown time and time again, they will commit a serious injustice, get a warning a few years later, and then hit a lawsuit a few years after that. After 10 years of spinning in legal courts, they finally get a fine.

That fine would be negotiated a dozen times. During that decade, the tech company has already bribed/spent millions arguing that they did nothing wrong.

This is only for major tech companies that survive. There's nothing stopping a tech company from bankrupting itself to avoid collection.

SmoothOperator@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 22d

There are no EU taxes though