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Re:Two senators say a $5B fine isn’t enough to punish Facebook by idlewords on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @09:43PM (#19864627)
The problem being solved here is not "punish Facebook" but "make the tech oligopoly take the FTC seriously." The fine has to bite to achieve that goal.
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Re:Two senators say a $5B fine isn’t enough to punish Facebook by tptacek on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @10:27PM (#19864840)
I don't disagree even a little bit. My position is that this fine is of a scale that has teeth at virtually every company in America. I remain frustrated, however, that people generally believe that an existential fine is called for, since the underlying conduct was not itself existential to Facebook.

If we passed a law outlawing targeted advertisement driven by behavior tracking, and Facebook ignored that law, a $20B fine would be reasonable to me. And I'd be OK with that law!

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Re:Two senators say a $5B fine isn’t enough to punish Facebook by arthur_pryor on Friday May 10, 2019 @02:35PM (#19880822)
> If we passed a law outlawing targeted advertisement driven by behavior tracking, and Facebook ignored that law, a $20B fine would be reasonable to me. And I'd be OK with that law!

i think i would really like that law.

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