Super small compared to their income, but a GREAT reason to make all the users age validate.
Comment on Meta found liable in child exploitation case
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Putting this in fixed-width for scale:
This ruling: 375,000,000 Meta valuation: 1,618,000,000,000
This isn’t even a slap on the wrist; it’s a fucking rounding error.
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I knew this would be the top comment. All progress must be mercilessly attacked.
badgermurphy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Fining companies that commit a crime a small portion of the money they gained by committing that crime is ,not progress, that is the problem here. Meta still made more money, after the fine, than if they had not perpetrated the crime. This is more of the status quo, which is why people are complaining about this the same as they had about the previous million times this same thing happened.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Nah, this is a practice in America. John Oliver did an episode on it but I can’t remember for the life of me what the main topic was.
7101334@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Phrased in another way, it’s equivalent to if you had $1,618 in the bank and were fined $0.30.