Sanctions were applied after the social media platform delayed compliance with a federal search warrant that required Twitter to hand over Donald Trump’s Twitter data without telling the former president about the warrant for 180 days.

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      Until fines become wealth based, it will always be a poor people tax.

      If cash flow is the issue, then start taking stocks.

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        Or make them recurring fines that grow exponentially each time they are issued until the situation is fixed.

        Edit: nvm it sounds like this is exactly what they are doing.

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      If he’d held out one more day it would have been 700k. 2 more days, 1.4M. 3 more, 2.8M.

      i.e. Musk caved before it became consequential.

      1.4B if he’d waited 2 weeks more. 23.4T (that’s Trillion) if he wanted to shield Trump for a month. I’d say it was a heavy fine that worked as intended.

      Someone check my math.