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john_strinlaiyesterday at 10:44 PM1 replyview on HN

for perspective, €403M = ~30 hours of net income, or ~10 hours of revenue (based on 2025 numbers, current exchange rates).


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jiggawattsyesterday at 11:29 PM

There was a lot of noise a few years back about Meta getting billion-euro fines over GDPR violations.

I looked it up: they paid almost none of the fines.

If you get a ticket from a speed camera, the government will garnish your wages if you don’t pay the fine. For trillion dollar organisations payment is apparently optional.

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