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by hyhconito 533 days ago
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Oh no that'll never happen because VW are a European company and the money is in fining US tech companies!
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adolph 533 days ago
VW paid "$14.7 billion to settle civil charges in the United States" and was ordered "to pay a $2.8 billion criminal fine for 'rigging diesel-powered vehicles to cheat on government emissions tests'."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal

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betaby 533 days ago
"Seems low" and "cost of doing business" - paraphrasing any thread about US company. Could also says "VW should be sued out of existence".

Also I genuinely think those fines were low.

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RajT88 533 days ago
The fact that it did not seem to stunt their growth speaks for itself:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/VWAGY/volkswagen-a...

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rad_gruchalski 533 days ago
European companies get fined the same as any other companies.
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hyhconito 533 days ago
Well within the constraints they set out which exclude a hell of a lot of European companies.

(I am in Europe for reference, this is not an external perspective)

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mtmail 532 days ago
https://www.enforcementtracker.com/?insights shows breakdown by country, type, industry sector. "Highest fines: individual" top 10 list is all international companies (Meta, Amazon, TikTok, LinkedIn, Uber) and those make the news. Smaller European companies hardly make the news.
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7bit 533 days ago
What constraints? And which companies are excluded by them?
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