Comment on eBay hit with $3M fine, admits to “terrorizing innocent people”

thehatfox@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  From another article

  All seven who participated in the harassment have been convicted. Baugh was sentenced to 57 months in prison in September 2022.

  It was a small group of employees targeting one couple, and it looks like most of them will be going to prison.

  While I agree that the $3m is chump change for eBay, the victims deserve the settlement, and some justice has been served.

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  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It was ”a small group of employees” instigated by the CEO and CCO, who were never charged.

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    • killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “Instigated” implying conspiracy that was not round to exist, or they would have been charged.

      eBay’s board found the same: ebayinc.com/…/ebay-inc-issues-statement-regarding…

      They’re assholes, but there are no laws against being an asshole.

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      • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “Instigated” in the age-old “will no one rid me of this turbulent priest” sense.

        They weren’t charged because laws have always been understood to afford a loophole of plausible deniability to those in power.

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  • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s great to hear that the people responsible will actually do time for what they did

    Usually when you hear about people at a corporation doing some shitty stuff all you hear about is fines

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    • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Probably because they’re employees, not management.

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      • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The then-Senior Director of Safety and Security for eBay got an almost 5 year prison sentence, and it seems he reported directly to the CEO. That sounds like management to me!

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      • skydivekingair@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Please read the article before commenting.

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• Feirdro@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Since corporations are people, surely we can jail the CEO and board and prevent them from doing any business for 24 months?

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• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Honest question, this was a criminal proceeding, right?

  Couldn’t they now go after individuals through civil action, where burden of proof is lower, and damage claims can be pretty significant?

  I don’t really know, I suspect finding a legal team willing to go after ebay senior management may be challenging to find?

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  • tquid@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you have civil and criminal causes of action, it’s often expedient to pursue the criminal one first, as it’s admissible as evidence in the civil case—the reverse isn’t usually true. I would be very unsurprised if there were not a settlement very soon, which unfortunately we will probably never hear about.

    With the facts of the criminal case, I don’t think they would have any difficulty at all getting a legal team to go after EBay. It’s a risk/reward thing for them and the pockets they’d be going after are very deep.

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