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  • Keep in mind that giving out the highest possible sentences to crimes that could be worse (like murder) essentially gives someone that’s committing the lesser crime (rape in this case) free range to commit any worse crimes because the sentence can’t be worse anyway.

    If someone is fucked up enough to rape someone, chances are that they will see it as a positive that they can kill the victim and leave behind no living witnesses and without risking a worse punishment.

    Even if rapists won’t kill anyone, they might still be less likely to restrain themselves to cause additional harm to the victim.








  • Well, half a billion is still a lot of money so it’s great that the union got it so they can spend it on something useful. Half a billion USD is the entire yearly revenue of some fairly large companies in Sweden.

    And the fine is not intended to bankrupt Apple, it’s intended to punish them and as a show of force. If Apple still refuses to comply or even pay the fine, the fines would obviously escalate and the max fine on this offence is very very high.

    Also remember that the EU generally only cares what they do inside the EU, they care about how it affects EU citizens. So it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to issue brutally high fines based on yearly global revenue yet.