Twitter held in contempt, fined $350K over Trump data delay
arstechnica.com
Sanctions were applied after the social media platform delayed compliance with a federal search warrant that required Twitter to hand over Donald Trump's Twitter data without telling the former president about the warrant for 180 days.
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Just for clarification purposes, its 50k per day, doubling every day of noncompliance. So day 1 is 50k, day 2 is an additional 100k, and day 3 is an additional 200k. 3 days = 350k. I agree that it's not enough, but if they dug their heels in, it would grow really high, really fast, so it was a pretty effective fine.
In particular, by day 5 it's over a million dollars per day, and by day 15 it's over a billion dollars per day.
If they sat on it for a month, it'd be a ~50 trillion fine that day.
There's a reason it only took them 3 days to comply.