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The fine (and others like it) is a meaningless gesture. Unless companies like twitter start getting fined in amounts that aren’t pocket change to them, there is literally no incentive to change their abusive behavior. They make enough from abusing their users and absconding with their data to pay these paltry fines a hundred times over in most cases.



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