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Now all LinkedIn has to do is apologize and work with regulators to make sure this never happens again... thus ensuring no future competitor will have it as easy as they did.

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and maybe "settle" with them "without accepting that they've done anything wrong or admitting the fault."

If someone abuses people to get ahead, the answer isn't to allow others abuse people in the same way, in the name of fairness.

No, the answer is to meaningfully punish that business so that it costs them more than they gained by abusing it.

LinkedIn should be burned to the ground, frankly.

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