Meta says 4 states want $1.4 trillion in penalties at August youth-safety trial

I’m so used to these penalties never being enough to change behavior that I just assumed that was going to be the case here again. Buuuut, METAs market cap is apparently $1.562T, soooo for once I’m thinking… “Yah, that’s about right.”

Burn it to the ground!

They want too little money.

Weird that the decimal is in the wrong spot. 14 Trillion sounds about right. 15 Trillion looks nicer.

Milk that company for all it’s worth. I love it.

Cry me a river of tears whilst I make a boat out of my erections.

So sick of these companies getting a slap on the wrist compared to the crime they committed

Something something disco inferno.

I predict a shit tonne of firings. Hopefully it’s just middle managers.

Paid from the coffee kitty, I guess?

I suppose they revealed this because they expect people will consider it unreasonable?

Not me. I don’t have one bit of empathy for that company. I hope the entire thing burns to the ground, and everyone who chooses to work there loses their job. Fuck that entire organization.

Fine. We’ll settle for life in prison for their top executives.

I’m always happy to see a psychopathic company like Meta get spanked, but how does a fine like that help any of the countless victims?

If the money went to the victims, or was distributed among anyone who downloaded the Facebook app, etc. (even if it’s only 17 cents), I could see it, but it all just goes to the government, where it will be squandered on Sociopathic Oligarchs.

Fines for things like this should be put in an “America First” Fund, which is the money we use to fund the initial operations of new programs like Medicare 4 All, free college/ trade school, UBI, etc.

And those who made these deliberate, reprehensible decisions, that resulted in billion/ trillion dollar fines, should go to prison.

So whats the wh rate for pardons these days?