[Vespasian]

That tracks with European regulatory enforcement practices.

Everytime a new EU regulation is discussed on HN people are up in arms about the "maximum fines" and some replace the "maximum" with "mandatory".

Fines need to be reasonable and proportional and that is not optional if they should survive a court case.

The big fines are tool used to bring global conglomerates into compliance.

[nsjames]

Yeah that makes a lot of sense, I guess I had just never thought of it that way.