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This is so true. When you have a billion users, you can literally lose hundreds of millions of users and it wouldn't make a dent. The only way is to get the gov
by burningChrome 1mo ago
This is so true. When you have a billion users, you can literally lose hundreds of millions of users and it wouldn't make a dent. The only way is to get the government involved and regulate this and just keep hammering them with massive fines that really make a dent in their bottom line.
For a lot of people, government regulation of this sort is not desirable, but at what point does someone need to drop the hammer to stop this?
- ASalazarMX 1mo agoI guess you're used to standard billions (a million millions). A US billion would certainly suffer from losing hundreds of millions, you're talking about a double-digit percent.
- anamexis 1mo agoI doubt they are saying any services out there have 1,000,000,000,000 users.
- yetanotherjosh 1mo ago10^9 is the standard definition of a billion, it's very wrong to call 10^12 a "standard billion." You can say "long scale billion" if you want to refer to the definitively non-standard 10^12 billion.
- Terr_ 1mo agoTo quibble/add-nuance: The words have diverged into a false-friend [0] situation. It looks like the same word, but the correct/standard meaning depends on which language is being used at the time. If someone is writing English and puts "billion" for 10^12, that's a translation error, much like writing "my grandfather became pregnant when he realized he'd locked the keys inside the car." (Instead of "embarrassed.") Conversely, if I wrote a French or German sentence and put "billion" for 10^9, then I'd be the one making the translation mistake. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_friend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_friend
- yetanotherjosh 1mo agoYes, but we're speaking in English. If the definition of a same-sounding word changes in another language, it doesn't invalidate a point made within a language. It's fundamentally incorrect to say a standard billion is ever, in any modern context, 10^12, because we are speaking in English in 2026, and even the British mean 10^9 for the standard definition of a billion.
- happymellon 1mo agoIt's a shame as we used the correct definition for almost 300 years until the US pushed everyone to switch to their system. https://www.etymonline.com/word/billion https://www.etymonline.com/word/billion I would vote to revert it.
- yndoendo 1mo agoSomething like three strikes and the CEO, top executives, and three primary share holders go to jail while forcing the company to dissolve seems to be the only solution to removing bad actors in corporate settings.
- s1artibartfast 1mo agoAs long as we can also shoot tresspassers and thieves, you got a deal.
- happymellon 1mo agoWhy are you desiring the ability to murder someone?
- s1artibartfast 1mo agoSeems to be the only solution to removing bad actors
- inigyou 1mo agoOkay, let's start now. Hey! This comment section is my property! Bang bang bang bang bang.
- s1artibartfast 1mo agoyou get it :D Everyone can have their justice boner (TM). We dont need proportionality or a system to determine it it. Just pick a desired outcome and dial consequences up to 11.
- tadfisher 1mo agoCareful, I was called a "radical" on this site for suggesting a corporate death penalty. Because jobs are so important that when a corporation risks its own existence so it can break laws, dissolving the corporation as punishment is the government's fault and not the corporation's.
- alex1138 1mo ago> When you have a billion users What if they make a shadow profile for you? Do you count as a user? What if you've tried to delete your account and you can't? (I meant a real account here, not even a shadow profile. People have had the things reactivated years later)