Other than a wrist slap against Moscow, we've moved on.
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The Verizon scandal ultimately culminated in a $1.3 million wrist slap by the FCC.
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I mean more than a wrist slap, more like a cross the face you know sucker punch.
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Even successful prosecutions sometimes result in wrist-slap punishments because defendants have no previous criminal record, CNN found.
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"Affirming" a conclusion reached more than a year ago seems like a symbolic gesture -- a wrist slap at best.
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The wrist-slap penalty is $13 million, which is below what some rival firms have been forced to pony up.
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The problem, as usual, is that such penalties are little more than a wrist slap for giants like AT&T.
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So while I consider Yellen's closing move only slightly more than a wrist slap, it was a thunderclap relative to the alternatives.
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Every now and then, some institutions of higher learning earn a tsk-tsk for cutting corners, or a wrist slap for violating N.C.A.A. rules.
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Then there's my favorite, that she's "no Steve Jobs" — the only tech CEO that pretty much every tech CEO references, but wrist slap for her!
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First, Trump has already gone in unilaterally with a wrist-slap on Assad when the Syrian leader ordered the use of chemical weapons a year ago.
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So if the only show of resistance within Trump World comes in the form of a wrist slap in a driveway or a frown from the rafters?
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Will it be something substantial or merely a wrist slap that leaves no lasting reminder for the companies that gave away some of the most sensitive data your phone can produce?
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Will it be something substantial or merely a wrist slap that leaves no lasting reminder for the companies that gave away some of the most sensitive data your phone can produce?
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Should the F.T.C. go with the expected wrist-slap of a fine, it'll be flatly ignoring a broader sense of mounting frustration over user privacy and the monolithic nature of Big Tech.
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" O'Rielly, whose unabashed support of Trump recently earned him a government ethics watchdog wrist slap for violating the Hatch Act, went so far as to call bipartisan worries about Sinclair a "misguided fantasy.
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Trump's tweet comparing the impeachment process to a "lynching" set off a firestorm of Democratic criticism but largely a wrist slap from Republicans, who have grown frustrated but accustomed to the president's inflammatory rhetoric.
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On September 1150st it summoned Pakistan's envoy for a wrist-slap, citing evidence that the attackers had indeed slipped across the border, and noting that India has stopped 2126 such incursions since the beginning of the year.
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But, like much of the internet, I am cheering her every literal wrist slap because I have to believe that someone close to the administration is unafraid to openly defy the president, unlike Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, and their ilk.
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From the wrist slap Equifax received for failing to protect the private data of 145 million Americans, to the SIM hijacking and location data scandals plaguing the wireless sector in recent years, meaningful government inquiries, investigation, and punishment are often lacking.
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Although they are at least calling for the relevant data protection and patient data bodies to be involved in provisioning the framework for sharing NHS data, alongside Trusts that have already worked with DeepMind (and in one case received an ICO wrist-slap).
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Wrist-slap fines tend to be a pittance in comparison to the money AT&T made off of each of these scams, and AT&T's immense lobbying power has ensured that regulatory oversight has been gleefully stripped away, as the net neutrality repeal made clear.
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News of the DOJ's move comes less than two weeks after the FTC fined Facebook for $5 billion over its handling of the Cambridge Analytica scandal—a wrist slap congressional Democrats found woefully inadequate—and hours after the Washington Post reported the agency had approved unprecedented oversight measure over Facebook's privacy policies.
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High profile hearings would force the Trump Administration to explain just what, exactly, is its North Korea policy and could identify the right carrot-stick combination for motivating China to seriously pressure North Korea (the recent sanctions by the Treasury Department on a Chinese shipping company and two individuals aren't even a wrist slap).
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"Memphis Teacher Hit Girl, 5, With Ruler and Got Wrist Slap, Family Says". Tracy Connor. In March 2019, on the ground of immunity laws, the Chilton County, Alabama grand jury refused to indict principal D.J. Nix of Jemison Intermediate School in connection with the paddling of a child with autism. The child was restrained and paddled five times, leaving him with deep bruises.
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"Dean Blundell loses longtime sidekick after latest shock jock wrist- slap". canada.com, July 24, 2013. The program received a one-day suspension following a 2004 appearance by Jackass cast member Steve-O, in which Steve-O urinated on the studio floor, used several profanities, and performed a stunt that involved wrapping duct tape around his penis."Pushing the Edge too far". The Globe and Mail, March 27, 2004. In 2009, he was sued for defamation by Linda Jackson, the mayor of the Toronto suburb of Vaughan, after reportedly calling her a "fraudster" and a "fat pig" on the air.
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It was also reported that Russian officials intensively lobbied US politicians in an apparent attempt to achieve Grigory Rodchenkov's (main whistleblower) extradition to Russia. Justin Peters of Slate magazine wrote that the IOC "ended up with a situation that seemed to negate the entire point of the sanctions against Russia. The IOC did not want there to be a Russian Olympic team at the Pyeongchang Games. And yet the hockey, curling, and figure-skating arenas are full of teams of Russian Olympians ... [this is] a half-hearted wrist slap issued by an entity that appears more interested in saving face than in protecting athletes".
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Deputy (member) of the Russian State Duma and former professional boxer Nikolai Valuev has said that Russia should go to the Olympics and "tear everyone apart to spite these bastards who want to kill our sport". Despite the "Olympic Athletes from Russia" (OAR) designation, many Russian fans still attended the 2018 Games, wearing the Russian colours and chanting "Russia!" in unison, in an act of defiance against the ban. Justin Peters of Slate magazine wrote during the Games that the IOC "ended up with a situation that seemed to negate the entire point of the sanctions against Russia. The IOC did not want there to be a Russian Olympic team at the Pyeongchang Games… [yet] arenas are full of teams of Russian Olympians… [this is] a half-hearted wrist slap issued by an entity that appears more interested in saving face than in protecting athletes".
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