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A fine isnt enough. This platform needs to be permanently shutdown.
This place is breeding grounds for morons, bigots, predators, and other social rejects, and it lets all of them continue thriving. By no comprehensible measure should that be normal, but somehow it is.
Never heard of it, but isn't it the case that if it is shut down, that group of people will just move elsewhere as they have before?
Correct. And the only choice from then is to continue deplatforming them even further. Bigots and abusers don't deserve to have a voice
But I don't understand why don't they go after the abusers, instead of imposing a fine to the platform. This looks like a criminal case, it's not just a matter that should be left in the hands of the platform to begin with.. so why focus on blaming the platform?
Someone got bullied so hard they died, and the response is to simply ban them and then punish the platform? It sounds like an approach designed by lawyers who just want to make money, instead of actually an attempt to fix/correct the problem.
It's like blaming the email provider for allowing the exchange of messages and video files in a mailing group that was organizing crime.. instead of actually investigating the people who committed the crime and enacting laws / setting precedent that could act as deterrent, independently of which channel was used while committing the crime. Then punish the platform if they are not collaborating or if they are found to be complicit (while investigating the criminals).
Every time you deplatform a group, it generally shrinks by about 10%. Keep doing it enough and eventually you have a group that's JUST the diehards, and that group is generally so small that they'll burn themselves out.