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The total fine seems to be $200M, so maybe a buck a person. That’s still a whole lot more than their previous fine of $0.00 for it. Now we have a precedent.
by kstrauser 3y ago
The total fine seems to be $200M, so maybe a buck a person. That’s still a whole lot more than their previous fine of $0.00 for it. Now we have a precedent.
- jazzyjackson 3y agoA precedent that selling out your users gets you a slap on the wrist
- kstrauser 3y agoAlternatively, a precedent that the FCC can and will actually fine someone for breaking the law. The leap from $0 to $200M is much larger than the step from $200M to real fines.
- beretguy 3y agoSo, we improved from fining $0 to $1.
- kstrauser 3y agoCorrect, and imagine the amount of work it took to make that possible at all. If you build a car factory, you're not going to make a whole lot of net profit off the first one you sell. It's way easier to make car #2 after you have everything in place to make car #1. Given the size and complexity of the organizations involved in this fine, that may actually be a reasonable analogy. I'd bet person-years of work went into making it happen, and that a lot of that could be dusted off and re-used if the FCC wanted to do it again.
- thfuran 3y ago>That’s still a whole lot more than their previous fine of $0.00 No, it's barely more.