If the punishment is a fine, it's only illegal for poor people.

The only war is class war.

So that's like me paying a $20 fine. GOOD JOB

For the rest of us, there would be a seizure of assets and a prison term.

I don't understand why these courts charge a set fine for stuff like this. This is clearly an extremely unique case. The man is 20% shy of being a trillionaire.

What really needs to be done is they need to charge a percentage of his profits. Say 20 to 30%.

That's a fine of $2 out of a total of $800.

I'd speed past cameras if I was running late, and that was the fine.

Spoiler alert: he won’t pay or admit any wrongdoing.

I wish “massive white color crime” for the expediency that a “Black dude swelling a bit of weed” got.

It should be % based of his income. Otherwise it’s not a punishment 

He's made billions more after and because of it so he doesn't give a shit about a meaningless, billion dollar fine.

That is the price of new phone for him compared to us...

That's it, again?

JAIL TIME!

If I steal a bread to feed my hungry children I'll go to jail, but this guy ficks around with billions and all he gets is a tiny slap on his fingers?

Cool, so when this reaches Appeals court (which is where it's absolutely going next because they'll definitely appeal it), that 2.1B$ fine will get knocked down to 10$ and a blowjob (for Elon).

But hey, the Washington Post or whatever can get a nice little headline out of it where they pretend billionaires face any sort of punishment in this Capitalist hellscape for 5 seconds so that's nice.

Drop in a bucket. He should be fined of the money he paid to buy Twitter.

So the public paid to see another billionaire do things nobody else can do and get away with it. Nice.

Oh No, point 2 % of his net worth

0.2%

literally less than a traffic ticket in terms of scale

I wasn't invested in Twitter, but when I heard he was trying to get out of it I bought some stock. I knew he couldn't get out of the deal because it doesn't work like that and he's a dumb ass.

My only regret was not buying more. Thanks for the money, idiot.

1. That’s chump change to him.
2. He’s not going to pay it anyway.

He'll have it back in a month...

They should repossess it and place it in the hands of a responsible steward...

I think he can cut you a check for that in the court room.