Russia’s communications regulator Roskomnadzor has opened administrative cases against Apple, Amazon-owned Twitch, Pinterest, Airbnb, UPS, and other foreign companies claiming the companies are violating personal data legislation.
The Moscow court’s press service said Twitch had been found guilty by the Tagansky District Court and fined 2 million roubles ($37,700). Pinterest and Airbnb were also fined 2 million roubles, news agencies reported, and UPS 1 million roubles.
For first-time offences, companies can be fined 1-6 million roubles, said Roskomnadzor.
Russia fined Alphabet Inc’s Google 15 million roubles this month for what it said was repeated failure to comply with Russian legislation on data storage, after handing it a 3-million-rouble penalty last year.
MacDailyNews Take: Hopefully, while waiting for Apple and others to pay up, Putin will hold his breath.
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Appletini, meet The Molotov.
It will leave you shaken…and a little stirred.
Now that Pushkin has come to shove,
might be time to crawl to a new bar.
“Would be a SHAME if your beezenis caught a cold…”
How many billions of dollars those dipshits in DC are going to waste on this garbage happening over in Europe?
How many years will go by before they lose interest?
Ukraine was not apart of NATO, so the US was under no obligation. How many disputes are other border nations militarily actively fighting? I don’t see Biden rushing money and arms to assist one side of them.
The next time some idiot Democrat politician says we need to raise taxes and the rich aren’t paying their fair share, spare me the bullshit and collect your revenue back from Ukraine!
I still don’t support Ukraine and I don’t care about Russia.
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I was under the impression Ukraine got rid of their nukes because Bill Clinton promised we’d protect them.
I was under the impression the media despised Ukraine until they didn’t.
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I’m not impressed with the media….
Who was under no obligation? So the 1994 Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances is just a bunch of hot air. Good one.
https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/Ukraine-Nuclear-Weapons
Remember where it was written down that NATO countries would pay 2% of their GDP to fund NATO defense and they didn’t. That is until Trump came along and made it an issue and told those other countries to ‘buck up’ so to speak
“Just eight of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) 30 member nations met the alliance’s military spending guidelines.”
Source: https://www.newsweek.com/majority-nato-nations-fail-spend-2-percent-gdp-guideline-defense-1694014
So #SpareMeTheBullshit about obligations!
Source: https://www.wnd.com/2022/06/democrat-lawmaker-spare-bull-constitutional-rights/
The Budapest Memorandum is not about NATO, it’s about Apple’s home nation, Britain and Russia, the last one being the culprit here.
I do remember that NATO would pay 2% of there GDP by 2024 and the last time I looked at my calendar that date has not been reached.
I rarely comment on the internal squabbles but it is like watching a huge empire of hate crumble pie.
Hey Apple the fine of 2 million roubles ($37,700), will be far less than the travel expenses of your out of state travels for abortions for the loose women with no scruples you employ.
Other peoples life choices have fck all to do with you
I used to be able to purchase from Costco OTC non-prescription medication they sold in a package of 2 bottles containing 200 pills each.
I took two pills a day under the advice of my doctor in treating the after affects of surgery related to my Crohn’s Disease.
That medication is Loperamide. A popular brand is Imodium AD.
Because some peoples life choices was to abuse this product, the FDA hoped this will prevent people addicted to opioids from misusing the drug.
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The opioid epidemic is driving some users to abuse common, over-the-counter medications. Now, federal regulators are stepping in. (people’s life choices)
Loperamide, sold as a generic drug and under the brand name Imodium, is used to treat different varieties of diarrhea. It’s considered safe, with low potential for abuse.
It’s also an opioid — the only one available without a prescription. (people’s life choices)
Since 2015, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and researchers have noticed an increasing trend for opioid users to take large quantities of loperamide off-label to help with withdrawal symptoms. (people’s life choices)
That’s earned the product the nickname “the poor man’s methadone.” (people’s life choices)
In response to a growing body of evidence of loperamide misuse, the FDA recently announced to Trusted Source a plan of action to help cut down on abuse of the drug. (Hi, I’m from the government and I’m here to help)
The FDA is requesting that manufacturers of loperamide abide by new packaging regulations. These regulations would lower the total amount of the drug in a single package, making it more appropriate for short-term rather than long-term use. (unelected, unaccountable government idiots who never ask the question, ‘If we do this to “help” people, who are we screwing over?’ ANSWER: ME)
The regulators are also urging online retailers who sell loperamide to stop bulk sales of the drug and end sales of “large volume” containers of pills. (Thanks government for increasing my cost of this medication from $12.00 to $26.70 and that’s provided the .89$ package is available at Costco. If not, it’s $3.89 at my local pharmacy for the same damn thing. Thanks for wasting my time, 20 minutes each box, unwrapping 24 individual packets, and most of all, costing me more money in gas as I pollute the environment (screw your green new deal BS), as now, I have to make 30 trips a year to Costco, when two was only necessary before government got involved and fucked me over).
“I believe anyone who is distributing healthcare products has an obligation to be a partner in helping address the most pressing public health challenges like opioid abuse… You have a social contract to take voluntary steps to help address public health challenges,” said FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb in a press statement. (My life choice was not abusing opioids, so why am I getting screwed)
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Source:https://www.healthline.com/health-news/fda-crack-down-misuse-of-diarrhea-drug
Now, let me talk about how Obamacare fucked me over…
Forgot to say that, at Costco, you can only purchase one box of Loperamide a day. Yet, the brilliance of government doesn’t issue a means to make sure one does not accrue boxes by making purchases day after day after day.
In less than two weeks, I can purchase a box every day except when they are closed on Sunday and after ten days, I will have accrued 240 pills. In less than twenty days, 480 pills. So, bulk purchases was never really ended.
So, in the end, the government morass that certain idiots here thinks is the bees knees, as per usual, accomplished nothing but wasting taxpayer money on idiot’s government payrolls and wasting peoples time and costing them more money!