Since corporations are people, surely we can jail the CEO and board and prevent them from doing any business for 24 months?
Comment on eBay hit with $3M fine, admits to “terrorizing innocent people”
thehatfox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
eBay’s revenue in the last financial year was over $10 billion, I’m sure that $3 million fine will make sure they never terrorise innocents again.
Feirdro@lemmy.world 10 months ago
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 10 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?
tquid@sh.itjust.works 10 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.
killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 10 months ago
From another article
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.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It was ”a small group of employees” instigated by the CEO and CCO, who were never charged.
killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 10 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.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 10 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.
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 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
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Probably because they’re employees, not management.
jqubed@lemmy.world 10 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!
skydivekingair@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Please read the article before commenting.