Meta hit with its BIGGEST FINE EVER → A fine bigger than some countries GDP! 🤯
A judge in New Mexico has ordered Zuck's Meta to pay $25 BILLION after a trial found it had lied to the public about how user data was handled.
This is very positive news, and it's great to see that New Mexico is holding Big Tech accountable. 💪👏
Another massive fine.
How is Meta still allowed to operate?
How corrupt is the Board to continue to allow the same management?
Often the massive fines are found to be illegal, either as a matter of court process or simple incompatibility with the rest of the legal system.
There are safeguards in place to check the power of a state that's seeking political points over justice, and that power is checked whether it's aimed at individuals or corporations.
Are you saying a legal process that found Facebook financially liable for thousands of dollars in harm to each of the entire population of Arizona was "point scoring"?
I don't dispute that often these fines are reduced. But I think that says more about who legislators and judges really protect more than anything else.
Well, it says more about the incentives that drive legislators and prosecutors that are all too rarely noticed in our day to day lives.
Legislators constantly introduce bills destined for the trash heap that signal that they think of the children, as the saying goes, that get them TV spots where they can pat themselves on the back regardless of effect or even legality.
Same with so many politically elected prosecutors around the country.
The more we recognize how cynical these folks are the more we can avoid falling for it.
Sure, we need to hold politicians to account.
Good government is the only power strong enough to stop the greedy oligarchs.
We DO hold politicians to account. We reelect them.
We voters like it this way as we go out of our way to stand up and say, Yes, we hereby give this person authority to do these things.
If we did nothing they'd lose office. It's only through our active voting that we grant them that position, and renew that grant of authority every time it come up for automatic expiration.
With voters' active and continuing approval they'd have nothing.
