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Re:Facebook's Email-Harvesting Practice Is Under Investigati... by save_ferris on Friday April 26, 2019 @10:03AM (#19757577)
The purpose of the fine is to discourage FB from engaging in illegal and unethical behavior. The problem here is that FB sees a $3B fine as the cost of doing business, since they surely made much, much more than $3B engaging in these invasive, user-hostile tactics. If they know that regulators will only come after them for an arbitrarily low percentage of revenue generated from these activities, why would they stop doing them?

If a punishment no longer deters bad behavior, then it's no longer a punishment.

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