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Even many minor laws include a short jail sentence. Imagine if the penalty was that facebook had to full shutdown everything for 2 months. In comparison, a fi
by SkyBelow 7y ago
Even many minor laws include a short jail sentence. Imagine if the penalty was that facebook had to full shutdown everything for 2 months.
In comparison, a fine that you'll make up in no time is not a punishment at all, just a fee for the privilege of being allowed to ignore the law.
This fine for facebook is comparable to a speeding ticket price for a minimum wage worker. Is the crime on the level of speeding?
- SpicyLemonZest 7y agoI'd argue it is. Nobody's claiming that Facebook has caused direct or serious harm here; they've just broken the rules that we put in place to ensure people who do want to do nasty things with your data can't do it. That's very analogous to speeding, which by itself harms nobody but is part of a regulatory system to minimize car accidents.