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Re:Two senators say a $5B fine isn’t enough to punish Facebook by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @04:33PM (#19853187)
Meanwhile Boeing actively subverted government regulation leading to mass casualties. What should their punishment be?
Re:Two senators say a $5B fine isn’t enough to punish Facebook by crankylinuxuser on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @04:45PM (#19853283)

    1. Execute the company (dissolve the charter)
    2. throw the board collectively in jail for a time for inaction of illegal actions leading to death
    3. charge all who conspired to subvert laws as a co-conspirators to premeditated murder
    4. Liquidate the company and pay back shareholders not in C levels, the Board, family thereof, or people charged with aforementioned crimes
Strong enough?
Re:Two senators say a $5B fine isn’t enough to punish Facebook by 6gvONxR4sf7o on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @02:49AM (#19856454)
Why would you pay back shareholders?
Re:Two senators say a $5B fine isn’t enough to punish Facebook by LanceH on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @05:29PM (#19853629)
How about just jail the programmers and engineers since they are the only ones who ever have a record of what went on.
Re:Two senators say a $5B fine isn’t enough to punish Facebook by yeahitslikethat on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @06:08PM (#19853911)
Wouldn't be the first time programmers were the only ones to do time for a company's crimes.

But when I'm asked to implement robosigning and push back now I'm the bad guy. I won't do it, but another dev did against my and the other developer's advice. He'll be fine I'm sure. No one will notice.

Re:Two senators say a $5B fine isn’t enough to punish Facebook by crankylinuxuser on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @09:49AM (#19858768)
And it's not hard at all to see different pieces done, which individually do not make a crime. However these 10 pieces (read: Agile cards) do make illegal actions possible.

The management approved this, and the devs worked on it. The devs certainly didn't execute said code. Now, if they were discussing "this feature allows fraud but we're going to do it anyway" over jira or email, roast'em.

Re:Two senators say a $5B fine isn’t enough to punish Facebook by mtgx on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @04:45PM (#19853281)
Banning the 737 Max from flying in the U.S. forever would be a good start, I'm thinking. It could be a decent lesson for airplane makers (and self-driving car makers) at least.
Re:Two senators say a $5B fine isn’t enough to punish Facebook by tptacek on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @04:48PM (#19853310)
Why not just ban all of Boeing's planes from flying? That would teach Boeing an even greater lesson.
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Re:Two senators say a $5B fine isn’t enough to punish Facebook by detaro on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @06:17PM (#19853959)
> Do that until all the 737max's are fixed and I bet they are fixed in a hurry.

Because fixed in a hurry is what you want in that situation?

Re:Two senators say a $5B fine isn’t enough to punish Facebook by mindslight on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @05:24PM (#19853582)
Presumably only the 737 MAX is the result of a bad-faith design process.
Re:Two senators say a $5B fine isn’t enough to punish Facebook by etaioinshrdlu on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @05:06PM (#19853454)
The knee-jerk is strong with this one.

Sometimes glad we don't have direct democracy or mob rule.

Re:Two senators say a $5B fine isn’t enough to punish Facebook by rcar on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @05:18PM (#19853535)
I believe that you missed the /s implied at the end.
Re:Two senators say a $5B fine isn’t enough to punish Facebook by etaioinshrdlu on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @08:29PM (#19854774)
Yeah, I actually thought it was meant literally...