Re:Dutch foundation seeks consumer damages over Apple, Googl...
by dragonwriter on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @03:27PM
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There's two different things here with different answers:
> At what scale of massive recurring societal harm (Google, Facebook, etc.) should we confiscate all assets [...] and auction off anything.
At the point where criminal fines and civil damages and penalties exceed the value of assets of the firm.
> disband the company
This is less clear. A difference between a juridical and a natural person is that you can't simply swap out the decision-making apparatus of a natural person. You can, if need be, to a juridical person like a corporation, so its not clear what purpose disbanding the firm (whether assets not needed to be obligations are returned or seized—the former being more analogous to the death penalty) serves.
> At what scale of massive recurring societal harm (Google, Facebook, etc.) should we confiscate all assets [...] and auction off anything.
At the point where criminal fines and civil damages and penalties exceed the value of assets of the firm.
> disband the company
This is less clear. A difference between a juridical and a natural person is that you can't simply swap out the decision-making apparatus of a natural person. You can, if need be, to a juridical person like a corporation, so its not clear what purpose disbanding the firm (whether assets not needed to be obligations are returned or seized—the former being more analogous to the death penalty) serves.