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Seattle Finds Facebook in Violation of City Campaign Finance Law (reuters.com)
Seattle's election authority said on Monday that Facebook is in violation of a city law that requires disclosure of who buys election ads, the first attempt of its kind to regulate U.S. political ads on the internet. From a report: Facebook must disclose details about spending in last year's Seattle city elections or face penalties, Wayne Barnett, executive director of the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission, said in a statement. The penalties could be up to $5,000 per advertising buy, Barnett said, adding that he would discuss next steps this week with Seattle's city attorney.
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They're cutting the balls of Facebook, passing a law to cut the balls of Apple's inbuilt obsolescence, have native Indian tribes controlling most of the forests. Yep i like Washington state Too bad about those blue scanners tracking cars on the 405. Now they need to cut the balls off microsoft who installed those.
Wow, the petty-cash will not even get a dent.
What if they straight up not pay? How could Seattle hold Facebook accountable?
throw the book at them
Like the nearly 80% tax on soda and nickel tax per bullet which for cheaper calibers could be more than a 100% tax.
Facebook is guilty of so much... if they were even fairly prosecuted for half of it they'd have to shut down the company.
... cannibalizing each other.
No surprise - it's how things always end when pretense of care for people is used as a route to power.
Why? Because power is the real end game, not people.
The law went unenforced against tech companies until a local newspaper, The Stranger, published a story in December in the wake of the Russia allegations asking why.
It's ironic because, in both of Obama's campaigns he claimed to get the majority of his fundraising from individual credit card donations and many people pointed out that nobody could track the source of the money wondering if that was in violation of campaign finance laws.
Nobody bothered investigating that.
OTOH, California and Washington refused to provide information to Trump's election investigation too because they felt they had a right to ignore laws they detest. Perhaps Facebook and Google should do the same and cite to the courts this same rationale.
For the big Giants of the internet the last thing they want is established precedent where a metro municipal code drives the practice of national or global content.
Expect Facebook to fight back with amicus briefs from every major content provider weighing in on thier side.
This would be a quixotic foray for Seattle, and a phyrric victory the best possible outcome.
Just paid without tax $13.75 for a 32 pack at Costco. That's 42.97 cents per can which is much less than your 47 cent challenge.
Block all internet in Seattle.
Too bad it doesn't include jail time for senior execs
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Why not try to get a slice of that delicious pie? :D
Gotta get them bucks somehow.
Funny thing there was an episode of Sliders codemning Republicans for taxing sodas etc. Funny it turned out to be Democrats to do it instead.
Because the Internet exists no-where, one can easily argue that it exists everywhere.
And this is how countries start applying national laws to international companies who have an Internet Presence in their country.
And that presence is the consumer viewing or interacting with the website primarily, a company office secondarily.
So, with all the countries (rightfully) applying basic national laws to anyone providing a service to their residences leads to the next step:
These companies have a presence in, and should be following all the laws for sub-national political entities.
The US has started this by having internet companies follow broad laws at the state level. Which is usually fairly homogeneous.
However, even smaller localities have a legitimate claim to apply their laws to services being offered to their residents, since the point of interaction is physically at the consumers terminal.
The rhetoric from a decade ago "How can you follow all the laws for all the countries who can view your content?", turned out to be: You simply provide a different experience to each geographic region. And follow the laws required.
This will get exponentially more difficult once all the localities start to realise that they need to apply their laws to all entities, or start doing the TV thing and black-out regions.
Jews believe this of all they call goyim/gentiles (any non-jew): Jews = biggest racists of all (for which they "jew guilt" you for no less! They're hypocrites known as thieves all thru history or were Argentines in the 1940 under Perrone, Spanish inquistion & Spain 1492 (Christopher Columbus the jew https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22C... sailed to the US for them to create it), France (1306), Egypt (despoiled/robbed by jews), Arabs (pre & post 1948), England (1330 Edward longshanks), Romans under titus, Russia pogroms and Germany who got rid of them from their nations nazi german's too? No. Driven into DESERTS ages ago! Don't wonder why after all those exilings above. Should anyone doubt any of this see Jacob Javits' crony Rosenthal spill the beans on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4zMVZ8HnFI/ where he called all Christianity fools for helping Israel and the biggest scam of all time per their beliefs below from their Talmud. This is the province of the synagogue of Satan (Khazar/Pharisees whom Jesus Christ himself kicked to the curb out of the temple & they killed him for it. Jeremiah did the same to them also + the Essenes could not stand them either breaking away from the pharisee corruption):
Maria Abramovic satanist spirit cooker pal of Hillary Clinton the Voodoo queen is a jew https://www.google.com/search?...
Like Hillary Clinton's mentor Saul Alinsky author of rules for radicals book dedicated to Lucifer
"Most Jews do not like to admit it, but our god is Lucifer â" so I wasnâ(TM)t lying â" and we are his chosen people. Lucifer is very much aliveâ Harold Rosenthal http://www.thetruthseeker.co.u...
Jewish rabbi openly admits to satan worship use white children's blood they kill for passover bread, infiltrating and subverting the catholic church, creating the Jesuit order https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Barbara Spectre, a jew, tells everyone it's jews orchestrating the muslim migrant problem in Europe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFE0qAiofMQ/ . No migrant raping of women in Poland. Tons in Sweden. Do the math. Use common-sense. This is to get muslims and other goyim/gentiles to wipe one another out as incompatible cultures that will clash and always have.
Rabbi A. Finkelstein ADMITS their greatest enemies are ARABS and WHITES (blacks too) whom they wish to kill one another in a 'theater of war' which they find AMUSING https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Finkelstein also admits JEWS DID 9/11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?... profiting by it (and that 3,000 jews employed there did not show up for work that day knowing about it beforehand).
Finkelstein also admits JEWS are going to destroy the U.S. Dollar and dumping it for other world currencies and gold to destroy the United States.
George Soros who funds groups to create division in the USA?? A jew. One who sold his own jew people into death for the nazis.
Zucker now FIRED @ CNN is another frying publicly for lying about "russians" and John Bonifield a producer @ CNN said it is bs. Van Jones did also.
Bernie Madoff (who made off with everyone's money, especially construction union pensions) shows the thieving nature of the JUDEN!
Eric Schmidt had to step down @ JEWgle (a jew).
80% of $0.47 is $0.37
For disclosing the financing behind a political ad? If I buy TV time or space on a billboard for a political ad, it's up to me to place some identifying information within the ad. The media owners may have no idea who is behind the advertisement. Because more often than not, the space in the media is purchased through an ad agency or other intermediary.
Now, if Seattle determines that some ad isn't within compliance of an election law, they can serve Facebook with a warrant to find out who pays for that account. But Facebook has no way of determining in advance to what use I am putting my pages. I might be using it to promote my favorite pizza place or microbrewery. It's not up to Facebook to track that in advance. They may not even have the expertise to evaluate ads for political content.
Have gnu, will travel.
If you weren't busy being so obtuse, you could have looked up the fact that the tax is actually 1.75 cents per ounce, making the total percentage vary between beverages based on the original cost. But hey, it's easier to shitpost, amirite?
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This is just like the actions of several other Progressive states and cities. A 1977 law that has been unenforced is being pulled out for partisan reasons. Progressives just cannot understand how a candidate as flawed as Clinton could possibly have lost, so they're turning to the courts to punish anyone that may have played a role in the sure thing candidate losing.
Progressives are going to go down in history for being sore losers who will do anything to protect their beliefs. They will abuse any law and bit of political power they can out of self righteousness. They believe they're morally superior and cannot understand why there are large swaths of the population that do not agree with them. Simply put, the uneducated, deplorable idiots. Those that keep screaming fascism and dictator are the very ones that want to dictate their ideology on the masses. That don't believe anyone that doesn't agree with them on every little nuance of progressive ideology have any right to an opinion.
80% tax? 21 cents on 12 oz of soda is 80%?
Show me where I can get them $0.47 cokes! or get your facts straight.
For the $0.21 tax per 12oz can to be 80% you'd be paying $3.15 per 12-pack, which isn't too hard to find if you're shopping sales on Coke/Pepsi products, or buying store brands. But since that $0.21 per can is passed on to the customer (Costco is itemizing that tax on their price tags and receipts) you're also paying sales tax (10.0%-10.4% in the Seattle area) on that tax plus the actual price of the drink itself. Once figuring in sales tax the total tax for a case of Mountain Dew at the Seattle Costco was 103%, ($8.99 for a 36 pack, $7.56 in Seattle sugar tax, and $1.67 in sales tax).
you'd be paying $3.15 per 12-pack, which isn't too hard to find if you're shopping sales on Coke/Pepsi products, or buying store brands
It's not hard to find 12-packs on sale 3 for $10, or occasionally 4 for $11, but you'll never see those princes within the Seattle city limits with the sugar tax.
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...that they completely ignore Soros...lol