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How do you know that? How could you know that?

These people are one of the few people holding Meta accountable for their evil acts and because of that you call them "scummiest people in the US"

That's nonsense.

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which 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If you read the settlements that come out of these lawsuits, you will pretty much always find an 8 to low 9 figure settlement (that the lawyers get a third of), maybe some superficial policy changes, and $12 checks to the supposed victims who only became victims when they randomly got an email telling them they should join the lawsuit. The only people who benefit are the lawyers.

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malfist 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

$12 dollars is $12 dollars people wouldn't have without them. You can always opt out of a class action settlement and sue yourself if you're not happy with the terms.

But at the end of the day, the lawyers did real work, took on real risk and achieved something. They held a big tech company accountable, and that is a meaningful difference from the status quo. I don't care that they made money doing that, they should.

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amethyst 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Is it really holding them "accountable" when the settlements are for laughably small amounts, like <1% of a single day's profit?

	▲	malfist 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No one else is doing anything. So it's something.

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reaperducer 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The only people who benefit are the lawyers.

My special savings account where I deposit the settlement checks from the various tech companies that have violated my privacy or other rights disagrees.

Sometimes it's 43¢. Sometimes it's $400.

In the last three years, I've put… checking… $5,351.83 in that account because tech companies think laws and morals don't apply to them.

Saying that these lawsuits only benefit lawyers is both false and yet another lazy tech bubble cliche.

Yes, the lawyers get way more than I do. They also did 99% the work, so I don't hold it against them.

Just read the newspaper. Every time you see an article about one of these suits, check it out to see if it applies to you.

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nslsm 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Hey at least you get to pocket all of that. Here in Europe the government keeps the money and then distributes it to the scum of the Earth. I'd rather give the money to lawyers, at least they did _something_.

	▲	duskdozer 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		>distributes it to the scum of the Earth Who?

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raw_anon_1111 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And the lawyers will make millions and the people will make nothing. Facebook won’t make any significant revenue affecting changes.

	▲	bdangubic 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		that is a problem of the system that needs to be solved. meta is among the purest forms of evil inflicting irreversible effects on our society (and youth in particular) and the fact that you are quite right isn't really an issue with the lawyers but system that allows punishment to not fit the crime.

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dec0dedab0de 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There are many lawyers that gather up victims for class action payouts and take most of the money for themselves.

They don't even bother trying to get more when they can, because they're just bottom feeding.

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reaperducer 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You may think Meta is bad. But plaintiff counsel like this are generally the scummiest people in the US. (Maybe not universal, but 90% are morally repugnant).

As they say, "95% of lawyers give the remaining 5% a bad name."

At the same time, 99% of social networks give the remaining 1% a bad name.