Re:If a $5B Fine Is Chump Change, How Do You Punish Facebook?
by exabyte on Saturday April 27, 2019 @09:46AM
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Yeah for sure, I think that lobbying having infiltrated our politics is the issue here. Corporate influence/greed is what keeps these concerns from being addressed.
Also Philip Morris (at least the parent company) is now called Altria
Re:If a $5B Fine Is Chump Change, How Do You Punish Facebook?
by seagullz on Saturday April 27, 2019 @10:04AM
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Right.
People at large are not really aware of the severity and expanse of own vulnerabilities -- addiction, coginitive bias etc. Or are even unwilling to seriously think through that angle.
This seems to call for a balance of perspectives and responsibilities. Partly similar is probably the case of traffic safety: driver's vigilance and responsibility has to be matched with sound regulation of all transportation profiteers.
Yet, to keep the pernicious effects of those flaws from being amplified by that tool at scale, it needs to be kept in check. Smoking habit may be a reflection of poor self-control on the part of the smokers, but that is no defense against Philip Morris fines.