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This is absolutely wrong. Fines scale with revenue because they are supposed to deter behavior. If I get fined $1000 the change in my behavior is different from that of a minimum wage earner and a multibillion dollar company.

FB has egregiously harmed consumers and has engaged in behavior that is criminal. In no way should they be left off the hook.

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FB has egregiously harmed consumers

If that were true, you'd see consumers quitting en masse—yet that's not what we see, no? https://jakeseliger.com/2018/11/14/is-there-an-actual-facebo...

If heroin were really harmful, you'd see users quitting en masse too, surely?

And what about Palm Oil? If those plantations were really a major contributing factor in climate change people would stop using it surely?

Come on. The popularity of something is no measure of the harm it causes.

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