Comment by ffsm8
5 months ago
I think you're interpreting that that's the only outcome?
In Germany it's much harder to get money via lawsuit (vs the US), so that's kinda normal. If Twitter doesn't comply, the Staatsanwaltschaft will open a new lawsuit which will have a much bigger fine.
but yeah - 6k lawyers fee sounds like a joke, I guess it was a slam dunk case with very little time on the clock for the lawyers.
They just need to delay until after the elections and then pay the fine.
No, not Staatsanwaltschaft (public prosecutor). This is a private suit. Plaintiff can get some sort of injunction next, I presume.
Couldn't the violation of the DSA also lead to prosecution at the EU level?
Yep, it does! See https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_...
Not directly, yeh. I just skipped to the logical conclusion if they keep ignoring the ruling indefinitely.
But definitely not something that's going to happen within the next weeks, sorry if I made it sound like that.