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Australia takes on Elon Musk over spike in online hate on Twitter (12ft.io)

submitted 1 year ago by Los@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] AnnaPlusPlus@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Google tells me his net worth is $234.4 billion. That's enough money for 341,193 days of fines, or just over 900 years. So no, he probably won't care

[–] 6fn@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Even if the fine were to reach half of what he spent on Twitter, he would have to pay them $687,000/day for longer than the average life expectancy in the healthiest country on earth (87 years). A billion is such an absurd number.

[–] Mishmash2000@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago

Wow?! So it's basically in the region of a normal person paying about 10-20 cents fine a day or the cost of a cup of coffee every month or two.