Purely economically speaking that is true, but that's not the only relevant thing here.
Remember it's the Chinese Government essentially harvesting massive ammounts of data. A price well worth it, if you use it later down the line in propaganda efforts, marketing strategies and "spotting potential dissidents".
A more apt punishment would be forcing then to delete the data, prevent future harvesting or massively increase the fine to offset potential political gains.
There are a lot of reasons, but I think it boils down to the people in charge do not want the embarrassement of crawling back to the EU.
It would be total ego destruction and that is simply untennable.
This is what happens when the right gets enough power to make a change and then has to experience consequences.
Just don't ask them if the city has "special rules regarding the age of consent".
I have not forgotten how techbros handled that the last time the topic came up and the ammounts of copium huffed afterwards.
"Mental maturity is more then enough" was quite the statement from the cryprosphere
Raise your hand if you are convinced this will not impact the people who pay for the blue checkmark.
Meaning that a lot of Elon Fanbois / Bots / Fascists will be seen with theit shitty takes (since the checkmark pushes your comments up), while voices of reason will be dragged down further.
Twitter is rapidly becomming the new Truth Social and it's sad to watch.
Cornell West SHOULD know better then doing stunts like this.
Because even if the criticism is correct, he is siphoning blue-voters away to a politically useless or damaging position, like the Green-Party.
Which means he weakens the Democrats.
Which in turn means he strengthens the Fascist-GOP.
We can aknowledge the Truth, but always vote and always vote blue.
NEVER risk a blue vote for the need to pride yourself on "fighting the corrupt system".
Emotional validation is never an argument for weakening the only thing holding back Fascism in the US.
To much is at stake!
Ekybio @ Ekybio @lemmy.world Posts 2Comments 208Joined 2 yr. ago
Purely economically speaking that is true, but that's not the only relevant thing here.
Remember it's the Chinese Government essentially harvesting massive ammounts of data. A price well worth it, if you use it later down the line in propaganda efforts, marketing strategies and "spotting potential dissidents".
A more apt punishment would be forcing then to delete the data, prevent future harvesting or massively increase the fine to offset potential political gains.