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They make $1.4B per day. This is basically just a cheap subscription for them
For comparison, if you made $365,000 per year this would be the same as you paying 7 cents per day in a fine, or $25 per year.
If a fine is less than the profit it is legal and the cost of doing business.
Exactly right. Facebook will factor this in as am expected cost of doing business (if they didn’t already) and their stock will go up. This isn’t a penalty, this is just like paying a bribe. In the end, both are just lining the pockets of officials more interested in appearing to do something for the next news cycle so they can get re-elected.
Did you mean $365,000,000? Or did you get confused by the “.”? Cause that’s used as a comma for numbers in a lot of European countries, so it’s $100k per day, not $100.
Also, it’d be exactly 10 cents per day, since $365k per year would be $1k per day, which 100 is 10% of.
No, they meant 100k is 0.0071428571429% of 1.4b, and 26 is the same percent of 365k. Basically, if you made 365k a year and had an equal percentage fine, it would come out to less than 7 cents per day.
Ah, my mistake.
Thanks for checking my math
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From the article:
$100,000 per day for a country with ~5.4 million people is a lot. If even 20 percent used Facebook regularly, then that would still be 10 cents per user per day. It’s unlikely that Meta is generating so much profit per user - every day.
This is a reasonable observation and I wonder what Meta would do once one of their services becomes unprofitable in a specific country. Anyway if you add Instagram and WhatsApp to the math, maybe they would still generate profits from the Norwegian userbase
I wonder if this is a big amount for Norway’s government. After 3 years you’ve got 100 million dollars. Not huge but you could build a nice hospital or something with that.
per capita, iirc, Norway is richer than U.S.
they don’t need to fine fecesbook to get rich
Dude, Norway is one of the richest countries in the world.
I don’t know where you’re getting that number but it’s definitely wrong. Their most profitable year so far was 2021, and they made $39.4 billion for the entire year. Source
You also have to consider how much of that profit is from operating in Norway.
So assuming things haven’t changed too much for them, this is about 1%. Barely noticeable.
No, it’s 0.1%. But Norway could be less than 1% of their market, so it’s somewhat significant.
Ah. Got that number from a Google search. Thanks for telling me.
I think the 2 points the article makes about that are pretty valid though. It’s most probably more than Facebook’s revenue in this single country plus it’s just the beginning.
Companies operate at a loss in certain markets all the time in order to keep competition out. Even if they’re not profitable in Norway, they don’t want a Norwegian social network muscling in on their territory.
“Competition is for losers.” - Peter Thiel, first investor in Facebook and mentor of Mark Zuckerberg
it’s not $100 as OP wrote, it’s $100000
Hope he didn’t write $100 Americans just refuse to acknowledge the existence of other cultures and can’t be bothered to try to learn to understand them.
The presence of multiple zeros after the decimal point is the big clue you know.
Still meaningless with zero effect on company value.
Not really.
Norway has 5,391,369 people, and assuming ~40% use facebook, that’s 2 million people that use facebook. 36.5 million dollars per year of fines mean that it’s 18 dollars per user per year.
Facebook has 2 billion users worldwide, and has a revenue of 33 billion every year. If all of those 2 billion users fined facebook for 18 dollars per year, that’s their whole revenue gone.
It just doesn’t have that much effect right now because it’s only norway doing it.
So, my comment stands. Stupid reply.
With only one country doing this, they can soak the cost, but the ARPU (average revenue per user) of Facebook, or any social media site, is actually quite low. It literally costs them money to operate in the country now.
The question becomes “How many other countries can do the same before we are forced to care?”
Fun Fact: Reddit had the lowest ARPU of any major social media.
The average revenue varies wildly with how rich the user is, though. It’s much more profitable to market to Norwegians than Indians given they have vastly higher spending power.
Is there any post about some fine for a tech company where this isn’t the top comment?
Maybe not, but it is a good reminder each time anyway.
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Where are you getting that number? Their financial reports claim about 120 billion a year in revenue. Or 0.4 billion per day.
That’s for about 3.5 billion users. Let’s say Norwegians, being quite rich, generate ten times the daily average, or about $1 per day. I don’t know how accurate it is, but this page claims about 80% of Norwegians use Facebook. With 5.5 million people, that would put their daily revenue for Norway at about 4 million. So this fine would equate to about 2.5% of their revenue. With a net profit of about 25% (it has varied from 20-30 the last few years) that’s about 10% of their profits.
It’s not exactly going to put them out of business, but it doesn’t seem too bad, proportionally, even with the numbers as generous as possible to your case. If India did the same (just adjusting 100k for population size) it’d be 25 million a day, or ten billion a year.
Fines like these should be exponential in some way, that way they can’t keep getting away with it.
Nah, exponentiation is too good for them.
Fines should be tetrated.
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Explanation for the downvoters: The double up arrow is the symbol for tetration.
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Explanation for dumbs: What is tetration?
2=2
2^2=4
2(22)=2^4=16
2(2(22))=2(24)=216=65,536
You owe us $2
You owe us $4
You owe us $16
You owe us $65536
You owe us $2*10^19729
Not enough. The price for violating a human right should be enough to leave anyone bankrupt.
Meta was also recently ordered to pay a thousand dollars to every brazilian who can prove they were using Facebook in a specific year. Though they are still fighting back on that decision and no payment was made yet.
This will probably be changed into some fixed payment to the government instead, if not overturned completely, but it would be fun to see the whole country getting some extra paychecks for using Facebook.
Facebook should pay it. Imagine the user uptick when people think other countries might get the same payout.
This is exactly the sort of thing I want governments doing. Let bad businesses fail! Help them down the drain, even.
As much as I hate Meta, this is just going to become a “cost of doing business”. They have $32B in yearly revenue, this would cost them $36.5mil a year, a small drop in the bucket to what they bring in.
But how much money do they make in norway though? And it’s all a matter of consistently increasing that cost of doing business everywhere
Revenue is not profit, and Norway is really small.
If the fine is more than the profit Meta makes from Norway, something will have to change.
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@Ergologia @merde US Citizens: You guys are getting paid?!
All the governments should do like this
Anti revenue stream.
I likey
I should visit Norway, sounds like there are cool people there.
From what I’ve been hearing, it’s actually one of the best places to live in.
It’s like a more mountainous Denmark, with a more arrogant population. Awesome place!
Why arrogant?
I wonder why though
Advanced social-democracy.
Yeah and some really good chess players too
Danegeld.
Danegeld never changes.
Norway just became even more wealthier.
I wish WhatsApp get similar treatment also. the entirety of my country depend on it.
Technically WhatsApp is illegal in the EU.
what, really, how is it in the play store then
It is technically illegal, because the app is uploading all data from the phone book of a smartphone (names, phone numbers, email addresses, birthday dates, post addresses, etc.), but Meta argued that the data isn’t saved directly, all get an unique identifier, which is necessary so the app can work. But collecting data from people (who don’t even use WhatsApp) and didn’t agree to it, is illegal in the EU and only replacing a unique number with another unique number doesn’t make a person anonymous. It’s still an identifier.
That’s why I wrote technically, because WhatsApp is still around and Meta might have found a loophole, otherwise a lot of countries couldn’t use WhatsApp and I think Meta had to invest a lot of money to create or find this loophole.
Oh really? How so?
Sad I’m not in EU.
Latin America?
Nope India
What would facebooks reaction be if they had to pay the full amount of taxes without ways around it?
Norway should raise taxes on Facebook.
Oh no, not 100k. How will they ever scrape up that kind of money?