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@foone

If the census is "mandatory" where you are, demand the paper form. Then you can refuse to answer / do other nonsense for any question you don't like. I quit out of the online version the moment it validate-shamed me and demanded I comply with its restrictions 😉

I did this last time, drawing a line through every question that I thought exceeded the original scope of the census here (which is pretty much all but one of them). I got a couple of semi-nasty phone calls from a supervisor of some sort trying to get me to answer the questions, but I stuck to my guns.

It's theoretically possible to get fined here for refusal to complete the census, but nothing happened to me. I'm guessing it's similar in most western nations.

I still think @EUCommission 's #fines are not a real "#penalty"!

  • Banning #Apple and/or jailing it's C-level in contempt until they comply would be.

After all, if I were to do the same shit [hypothetically, as a small and/or domestic business in the #EU] I'd soon face a judge dismantling my business as a "criminal enterprise" and stripping it for assets to pay damages, alongside confiscating any profits made.

Remember: If the penalty for a crime is a fine it's only illegal for the poor!