Comment on Meta found liable in child exploitation case

melsaskca@lemmy.ca ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Do I have to remind everyone the ending of The Wolf of Wall Street?

  Tap for spoiler

  Rich people go to ricb people prisons that aren’t really prisons and are better than your house.

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t really care which prison they go to, as long as they also get leased out to do dirty, dangerous, back-breaking manual labor like every other Federal 13th Amendment Labor Slave.

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    • yabbadabaddon@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      See that’s the deal. Their prison is a mansion by the beach with Alfred doing mojitos.

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      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I get it. I remember reading that Ghislane Maxwell was “much much happier” with her new accomodations saying that the food was “legions better,” and staff was “responsive and polite.” Isn’t that nice for her?

        But the business model of American prisons includes 13th Amendment Slavery, so she might not be as happy with that twist.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t begrudge rich people going to rich people prison, because the point of prison is to remove dangerous people from society not to torture them in a cage. I do begrudge poor people going to poor people prison, because it seems as though these prisons exist as a means of extracting cheap labor from poor and PoC populations. Or outright abusing them - mentally, physically, and sexually - because this kind of brutality generates political rewards.

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• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t know, I’d sacrifice a few years if I knew I’d be released to my Trillion dollar fortune. I’d make that deal.

  They love their money as much as their freedom, each is worthless without the other, so take both.

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  fines don’t count anymore, only hard time

  I mean, you’re assuming this survives one of the eight million appeals the Facebook legal team is going to throw at it.

  But yes, by the time it works itself all the way up and down the appellate courts, I wouldn’t expect this $1.5T company to experience any legal penalties in excess of a few million dollars.

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