cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49145461
Meta has been up to no good for a while - always?
Is $1.4 trillion a reasonable amount for these cases? Who knows.
Is it reasonable compensation for all the evil they’ve done? I’d argue yes.
It’s essentially their entire market capitalization as a penalty.
Only the EU will ever give those kind of fines in that scale. In the US they will lobby (corrupt) their way out of it to get a symbolic slap on the wrist.
Or just make an AI post with Trump portrayed as God or something.
This fee sounds impactful. Unless he just doesn’t pay or get to pay it in a billion small rates …
And in the end, the users will have to pay for it. One way or another.
They won’t ever get fined that much. Sensationalist and completely detached from reality article.
Even if they do they’ll never have to pay it, and even if they pay some absolutely none will go to those who are supposed to be the victims.
Sensationalist and completely detached from reality article.
How so? This is what states involved in the lawsuit calculated. The article is very clear on this and doesn’t imply anything else.
Let’s punish them out of existence and destroy all recommenders system!! The others will follow, I hope.
Zuckerberg described his job as “Professional Defendant”
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
