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Nothing insane here.
The reason you don’t hear about a lot of fines this size, is because most companies aren’t egregiously out of compliance and also correct things when first poked. TikTok did neither.
That's the whole fucking point...
If a company chooses to leach data they have a large responsibility to ensure they handle children appropriately.
Just fine them to death and they will cave. Just look at how scared Meta is in releasing Threads in the EU.
Ban some of what TikTok's doing and enforce it fairly? Sure. But let's not actually get more authoritarian here.
And that worked out great; drug use among kids nowadays is way higher than it was in past, the drug industry is larger than ever, and cartel violence is killing countless more kids in the third world than drugs ever killed.
You'd like the EU to regulate... parenting?
You can also use Tik Tok on a laptop, but schoolwork is all online, what's the plan there?
We need to get back to paper and pencil and the value of social skills. Or use a Chromebook in a sandbox if you must use tech.