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And by that they are actually in violation of GDPR. But hey - since when was Musk interested in following regulations. And since when has a governmental or supra-governmental entity been able to curb that tendency of the super rich and biggest cooperations.

Like with meta: They know they mke 7 billion annualy from serving 15 billion scam ads daily. They calculated that they will have at most have to pay about a billion in governmental fines all over the world, if they should one day be regulated for that.

So it is a clear business decision to go on shoing 15 billion+ scam ads per day to their "users". Were some interesting journalistic pieces on that a few days ago.

And exactly those companies are the reason we need stronger protection. And these protections more heavily enforced.



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