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Fines in general for large companies need to be adjusted to their profits rather than just being unrelated big looking numbers. A $1 million fine looks like a lot, but if the company made even $3 million from the behavior that landed them the fine, they’re still incentivized to play dirty. If the fine if is a tiny fraction of the profits, as they so often seem to be, it’s even less effective.

Want an effective fine? Figure out how much being crooked made them and charge them double. Create an actual incentive for businesses to be fair in their practices. They’re definitely not going to do it out of the kindness of their hearts.

Better yet, start going after C-levels if the behavior is egregious enough.

If SAG hadn’t gone on strike, Netflix would also have been making agreements with actors to use their voice and likeness without actually offering future work too. Was SAG wrong to push against this?

Just because someone makes a deal doesn’t mean it isn’t a toxic business practice that’s bad for the industry or the people involved in it. People also agree to work for subpar wages, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t push for higher minimum wages.

You know what we need in a world of increasing authoritarianism? Franchises that initially satirized fascism before being a reason for their fanbase to fetishize it

It’s not that it has nudity. It’s that it had a child riding around on a fully naked adult in a horse mask.