the precedent is set that it costs 3million per person
Far from it actually. If anything appeals may pare down damages and nonpunitive damages must be backed by actual calculations. The bigger point I think is this sort of case can survive.
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Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 1 day agoyes… yes it is realistic.
the precedent is set that it costs 3million per person…
these companies should get zero free passes. hit them with the only thing they care about…money. these companies, if law was actually useful, would have been shut down many manyany years ago, and CEO’s would have been jailed by now. if the law actually mattered that is…
roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 day ago
fodor@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
3 million plus legal fees by the defense, so probably closer to 3.5 million.
spongebue@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I wasn’t commenting on what should morally or legally be. I’m just saying that if there’s, say, 1 million plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit it’s not realistic to expect 3 million dollars (minus attorneys fees) in each person’s bank account. That would be 3 trillion dollars, not including whatever punitive damages end up being. There’s a practical issue to be considered.
0x0@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
and CEO’s would have been jailed by now.
I’m going to move to Iceland.
Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
what’s in Iceland?
0x0@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Bankers in jail after the 2008 subprime mortgages crash.
albert_inkman@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The real takeaway here is not the dollar amount. It’s that a jury finally recognized the mechanism: these platforms are designed to hijack attention, especially for young users, and that design choice has consequences. The 3M is a start. What matters is whether this changes how they engineer engagement or just becomes a cost of doing business.