I mean.. there's simply no repercussions for these companies, and only rivers of money on the other side. The law is laughably inept at keeping them in check. The titans of Surveillance Capitalism don't need to obey laws. CFOs line-item-ing provisional legal settlement fees as (minor) COGS. And us digital serfs, we simply have no rights. Dumb f*cks, indeed.

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potato3732842 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

The line between big business and the state is blurry and the state wants to advance big business as a means to advance itself. Once you understand this everything makes sense, or as much "sense" as it can.

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dkiebd 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Users gave their data to Flo, and Flo then gave it to Meta. What repercussions do you want for Meta?

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Etheryte 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Buying stolen goods does not mean they're yours because the seller never had any ownership to begin with. The same applies here, just because there's an extra step in the middle doesn't mean that you have any rights to the data.

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Ekaros 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Some percent of their revenue as fine per case. Only way to scare these companies at this point.

	▲	j33zusjuice 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		A significant portion, too, not fractions of a percent. Frankly, I want the fines to bankrupt them. That’s the point. I want their behavior to be punished appropriately. Killing the company is an appropriate response, imo: FB/Meta is a scourge on society.

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pbiggar 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Meta should never have used them. Deeply unethical behaviour

	▲	NickC25 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Your mistake was expecting ethical behavior from Mark Zuckerberg.