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minus-squareWhitebrow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up46arrow-down1·1 day 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-up37·1 day agoit never is. fines should be a percentage of the value of the company, not just some sum.
minus-squareAttacker94@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 hours agoValue can easily be manipulated, it really should be based on 15% ish of their gross income
minus-square123@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours agoOr value, or XYZ whatever is largest.
minus-squareeierkuchen@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 day agoWell, net income already had plummeted 52% then. Let’s see 2025 figures. Sales are down, down, down…
minus-squareonslaught545@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down4·1 day agoYou’d need to do the math on net profit. Gross revenue is a pretty meaningless figure on its own.
minus-squarebisby@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·21 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-up12·24 hours agoWant to fine Twitter 10% for something horrible they did in 2020 using their net profit? You now owe Twitter 113 million.
minus-squaredespoticruin@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 hours agoThat’s why they said revenue, not profit. You never go for the net. Always go for the gross.
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.
Value can easily be manipulated, it really should be based on 15% ish of their gross income
Or value, or XYZ whatever is largest.
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.
That’s why they said revenue, not profit. You never go for the net. Always go for the gross.