1) If you're a prosecution or judge in charge of topic X, you issue warrants because it's your job. There's no reason to refuse preparing the paperwork or refusing signing it the topic is raised to your attention. Whether the warrant has a hope to be served is not your part of the problem. Justice systems everywhere issue warrants in hopeless cases, like against drug lords in hiding, or the ICC issuing a warrant against Putin.
2) It is not symbolic, it has consequences:
* Durov is persona non grata within Russia and Russia's friends; he can't visit his friends and family; he has to be very careful in which airport he gets his connections.
* Durov won't be able to seek asylum in Russia or Russia's friendly countries against the charges pushed by France. Effectively, Russia abandons Durov to potential jail time abroad.

It isn't EU wide. Wikipedia has a map. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

You're presumably right but you're not contributing a new argument. This boils down to exactly what the OP liqu1d was already saying: that Apple can't address the problem "short of removing the camera" because nothing else can be conciliated with the (legally-protected) privacy concerns.

There could be some local exceptions where consent is presumed. For example in Spain one does not need a permit for "genuinely filming as a tourist with a handheld camera/smartphone, moving continuously without equipment setup or blocking pedestrian traffic" https://cameracrewspain.com/fi...

Since many wildfires are man-made, maybe a tariff on matchsticks? The tariff money from Indian matches can use to buy aerial firefighting from Canada.

In your analogy, you (Google), is selling their own items in their garage. In a better analogy, Google operates a flea market where independent sellers come to sell their items, and Google obliges every seller must use Google Pay even when customers have cash, and sellers must eat Google Sawndwiches even they you could use Uber Eats.
Another difference is your garage sale grew to 45 million monthly customers, which the law defines as "dominant position" where the additional obligations apply, such as being open to competitor products in your own flea market.

Being curious at a young age does not make me a bad person. It is now well understood that kids aren't mini adults, they are have immature brains and make what they later understand as unreasonable decisions.

Go for it. I'd willing to accept your freedom in purchasing drugs. You're not a bad person, you're a victim of the traffickers. Victims don't get punished, they are provided with help (e.g. rehab programmes).

it is clear that authoritarian methods are more efficient in solving certain problems. It does not mean those methods are desirable. I want to live in a non-authoritarian society.

Yes if both partners are consenting, unpaid and:
* both partners are below 18, or:
* one partner is above 18 and the age difference is less than 5 years.

Source: Art. 222-23-1 CP https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr...
Article introduced in the Penal Code by Law 2021-478 (21 April 2021). The law: https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr...
This law was discussed following case of a relation between a 28 y.o. man and a 11 y.o. girl known as "Sarah" occurred on 24 April 2017, where the adult could only be punished very lightly as "sexual exposure" rather than "rape".

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Is it the the drug cartels and dealers fault that people buy and use illegal drugs? No.
Of course it is! Traffickers are the only reason for my ability to purchase drugs, since coca and opium poppy don't grow here.

You seem to believe corporations have some sort of natural right to exist and WTH they want, and if something is wrong, it's people's fault. You put corporations' freedoms above people's interest. I wouldn't generalise to "you people in America" (in the sense of "*all* of Americans") but I would say it seems to me it's one of the accepted points of view in the USA, while it isn't common in Europe. Corporations exist to serve, and if they don't serve us well then we need to tax, regulate, curb them, until they serve us humans. We humans enjoy freedoms, while corporation follow regulations.

I am happy that minors aren't in trouble for tobacco possession (some would argue the same for marijuana) and I am happy that the tobacco industry get appropriately regulated to avoid that minors can get ciragettes.

Not only that, but that it is part of private life and should be held separately than official duties. In France, Bill Clinton wouldn't be in trouble for having an affair. President François Hollande (2012-2017) had an affair with a young actress while being in couple with a journalist; the only thing that happened were pictures in the press. In 2012, Minister Rachida Dati put a man in tribunal to force him recognise paternity over a child; he defended himself saying he couldn't know he was the father since the lady had multiple relations at a time. French people don't mind about that... She's Minister of Culture, right now. That says a lot about the local "culture".

There really is a difference in societal view. No we will never punish children for falling to the tricks of evil megacorps.

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The only crime the EU can investigate on its own (through the European Public Prosecutor's Office) is fraud/corruption related to EU money; not paying a fine isn't of this legal nature. What the EC can do about not paying the fine is seizing corporate assets and prohibiting the company from doing business with the EU.

Specifically, unlicensed online gambling is estimated to cause a revenue shortfall of 1.2 G€/a for the French treasury. (Source: the report linked in my other post.)

Nothing is done about VPNs. The approach in France (and Europe) is generally to regulate businesses rather than sanction the individuals who use the services.

There are calls for stricter enforcement, meaning blocking social media advertisements and payment processors. Nobody's suggesting to impose fines on individual, in particular given the injustice that most gamblers are unable to know which websites are legal.

An estimated 5 million French residents use unlicensed online gambling websites. Sources: 1) (in English) https://www.igamingtoday.com/f... 2) the full Nov. 2025 study, at request of the online gambling websites association, and executed by PwC, on which the previous news item is based: (in French) https://afjel.fr/2025/11/05/ba...