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minus-squareWhitebrow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34arrow-down1·17 hours agoAlmost 100 billion revenue last year. 250 million of 100 billion is what… 0.25%? Yeah. That’s nothing to them.
minus-squareInt32@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·16 hours agoit never is. fines should be a percentage of the value of the company, not just some sum.
minus-squareeierkuchen@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·16 hours agoWell, net income already had plummeted 52% then. Let’s see 2025 figures. Sales are down, down, down…
minus-squareonslaught545@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down3·16 hours agoYou’d need to do the math on net profit. Gross revenue is a pretty meaningless figure on its own.
minus-squarebisby@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·13 hours agoOr, y’know, don’t do illegal things and it doesn’t matter. That’s the point of fines being a deterrent
minus-squareJohnEdwa@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·16 hours agoWant to fine Twitter 10% for something horrible they did in 2020 using their net profit? You now owe Twitter 113 million.
Almost 100 billion revenue last year.
250 million of 100 billion is what… 0.25%?
Yeah. That’s nothing to them.
it never is. fines should be a percentage of the value of the company, not just some sum.
Well, net income already had plummeted 52% then. Let’s see 2025 figures. Sales are down, down, down…
You’d need to do the math on net profit. Gross revenue is a pretty meaningless figure on its own.
Or, y’know, don’t do illegal things and it doesn’t matter. That’s the point of fines being a deterrent
Want to fine Twitter 10% for something horrible they did in 2020 using their net profit? You now owe Twitter 113 million.