Posted on 07/13/2021 12:39:52 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
A court in Germany has imposed a 100,000 Euro fine on YouTube for wrongly removing a COVID-19 protest video and refusing to reinstate it for weeks.
YouTube initially removed a video in late January covering lockdown protests in Switzerland, claiming it violated its “COVID-19 Medical Misinformation Policy.” Then on April 20 the Dresden Regional High Court (OLG), according to the German-language news site WELT, issued a preliminary injunction that required YouTube to immediately reinstate the video. But the Google-owned video sharing platform only did so on May 14, almost one full month later.
Last Monday the Dresden OLG called YouTube’s delayed compliance with their injunction an “intentional” and “serious” violation and slapped them with a fine of 100,000 Euros.
“With this historically high fine, the OLG makes it very clear that court decisions must be observed without qualification,” said Joachim Steinhöfel, a lawyer representing the affected YouTube channel. “It doesn’t matter whether YouTube supposes a violation of its guidelines or not.”...
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They make that much in 30 minutes or less....................
It should be that many euros, PER USER.
Individuals from the company need to go to jail.
Oooh, a millisecond of revenue (if you count their government backers for whom they are proxies).
Chump change.
Less than a bee sting to them.
Fines should be commensurate with their profits. Start at 10% of Gross earnings and go up from there.
A tap on the pinky like this and the laugh......................................
100 Million Euros if you want to get their attention.
WOW. That much, huh? FB is gonna have to implement some legit cost saving plans.
Lunch money.
Ping to Zee Cherman remedy for a free speech infraction.
YouTube gets a little whack of smarten up.
Milk money..................
A million bee stings and it is fatal.
Very amusing to see a German court protecting free speech rights. More than US courts do.
Probably less...appreciably less.
YouTube generated an eye-watering $19.7B in revenue last year. While Alphabet (Google’s parent) doesn’t disclose exactly what the streaming service’s profit margin is, the entire corporation makes almost $.25 on the dollar in profit. So, if YouTube performs reasonably closely to the parent, it’s conceivable it generated something around $4.7B in annual profit. That’s roughly $536K in profit PER HOUR.
They’re damn near making $100K in profit every 10-minutes. It’s insane.
It’s less about protection and more about a cash grab.
This is the same bunch, after all, that came up with the link tax and meme ban.
The fine is too low.
A billion dollar fine will do nicely. For starters.
Good. Google needs to be destroyed. They need to be turned into a smoking ruin as an example of what happens to people who deliberately try to defy the rights of people to speak freely on mass communications platforms.
Thanks for the info!........................
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