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These fines need to be orders of magnitude higher to be meaningful. €50M is pocket change for Fb.
Tech Companies have more power than Governments, its about time something be done about that by both the public (By no longer choosing to use their services) and the Government to help to lessen their power
Indeed, I think EU is doing the right thing with investing into open source alternative like NextCloud and Element.io.
this is a step in the correct direction