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1. TheRea+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-08-08 15:00:17
There are no crimes being committed, they've not been taken to court, judge against the US criminal code, and found guilty, after which the punitive damages are what they get fined. They merely violated the law, and were fined over that. The entire amount charged was the fine.

As for "who cares about %": every one who understands that fines that cost a company nothing, do nothing, all they say is "it'll cost you a trivial amount more to do this", turning what should be an instrument to rein in companies into simple monetary transaction that just goes on the books as an entirely expected and affordable expense.

It should be a crime, and they should have been found guilty in court over that, and the fine should be such that no matter your company's size, you can't risk running afoul of the law repeatedly. But it absolutely isn't.

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