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What really sucks about all these types of judgements:

Who's wronged here? The children.

How much do they get for being wronged? Absolutely nothing.

It all just goes to the governments coffers to be wasted away on a few PSAs directed at children.



It's restitution to society, for the cost of the damage done.


How can it be restitution if it doesn't help the victims?


Society pays the cost of mental health in reduced productivity, healthcare, accidents, homicides, etc.


Sure, but individuals pay the cost too. Society also has an obligation to make them whole or to at least give them accountability.


Individuals are able to sue Meta for their own redress, are they not?


I suppose in the civilised world, society looks after the victims - but of course in 3rd world shit holes, they are on their own.


Let's be accurate. We're a first-world shithole.

I'll be explicit in saying that this is because "third-world shithole" is often used as a pseudo-euphemism for "brown people reside there" - as in, this place is dysfunctional because of its brown residents. And, for the US, this is just simply not the case. We are an ethnically pluralistic society, historically and largely run by white men, and, yes, something of a shithole precisely because our government and courts exhibit a particularly Western flavor of corruption.


If only society paid the cost of mental health in increased counselling that money would go a lot further.


It is more money for the courts. Not really restitution to society.

Will Facebook change its policies? No.


> Will Facebook change its policies? No.

That's why fines need to be escalating.


It is more money for the courts.

In the United States, fines don't go to the courts.

Also, the article specifies where the money goes, so clearly your invented outrage trumped your willingness to read the article.


> Will Facebook change its policies? No.

Going to need bigger fines. This is how they curbed the tobacco industry.




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