> "long history of prevailing in court" is another way of saying "Google isn't being punished as much as they deserve"

Those two things are completely different and have very different meanings. For the most part, the courts aren't the ones that fine businesses.

> There have been more than 180,000 corporate fines issued in the US between 2020 and 2024, totaling more than $345 billion

> 3M Company has been issued with the costliest fines, adding up to $18.6 billion

$345 billion over 4 years seems like a lot to me. Maybe it should be higher? I don't know.

The system is not equipped to check and balance multi-trillion dollar corporations.

	▲	SllX 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		“The system” by which I assume you mean the Government of the United States or America doesn’t need to, because “the system” is sovereign. Corporations are not. They get checked when they get checked, and this ruling only avoided a worse-case scenario for Google. It wasn’t a win for them either.