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Anyone who follows these kinds of suits: does this have teeth? What outcomes are we most likely to see as a result of this?
by fuzxi 6y ago
Anyone who follows these kinds of suits: does this have teeth? What outcomes are we most likely to see as a result of this?
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoYes, it has teeth - for some values of "teeth". Yes, the FTC wins lawsuits like this. Not always, but some of the time. And if they win, they can in fact ask for Facebook to be broken up, and get it. And even if they don't win, Facebook has to take it seriously, which takes time and energy from executives. They have to at least consider the chance that the FTC will win, which means that they might think about a settlement rather than rolling the dice on a trial. How much that settlement changes things depends on how the sides negotiate, which depends (at least in part) on how much confidence each side has that they would win. Does this suit have enough merit to succeed? I have no idea.