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Take some of that money you get fining surveillance-capitalists and use it to fund privacy-respecting libre alternatives
Fined Facebook €1.2 billion in May 2023
Fined Facebook €390 million in Jan 2023
Fined Microsoft €561 million in March 2013
"fined the company [Google] more than $9 billion for anticompetitive practices since 2017" (2019 article)
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