these fines need exponential escalation over time to work.
It hasn’t even started accumulating. How are you declaring it won’t work?
Then you weren’t in a budgeting role. Multiple heads in Facebook’s Norwegian office will be on the line if they lose a double-digit fraction of profits. If you want headlines, go big and risk losing in court. If you want results, be smarter.
The way Oslo is playing it, this looks smart. They’re keeping it local to avoid jurisdictional challenges. And instead of a Vestager-Khan populist swing for the fences that entrenches both sides in litigation for years, it gives Meta a reasonable opening to actually change its behaviour in the short run.
Nobody ever gets fired for adverse policy environment, that’s bad fanfic.
Unless you throw an executive to prison like Brazil or force temporary shutdown like India or leverage three digit million fines like the EU … it’s all pocket money.
Also, if Facebook volunteers to pay a 100%+ effective tax rate in Norway…that seems fine for Norway?
> Finally, we note that Twitter assured the court that it would comply with the warrant by 5:00 p.m. on February 7, and never raised the possibility that it would defy the order for a month and end up owing the court “the entire world’s gross domestic product.”
[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/finland...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/17/norwegian-heir...