It shouldn't take lawsuits to prevent actions that have unknown affects on the world but that's what the powerful have argued for. "Prove what I'm doing is harmful enough to justify stopping me from doing it." Its exactly the mentality of the right wing, of MAGA, of Trump, of CEOs and the entire business community. We have to prove harm before we can stop them from acting. And then they just undermine the entire process of determining that.

This is a much broader question about the tendency of the wealthy and powerful to act without any regard or responsibility to the communities and world they affect. They control vast systems of resource management and want to be beholden only to their own interests and only in the way they perceive them. They want to be tyrants, kings and emperors with absolute authority to decide what they do and what their systems do. Its absolute, pure narcissism, the ego and interest of the ones on top becomes the priority of the entire system they control.

Its insane to leave the direction of humanity solely to the egos of the wealthy and powerful. But that's exactly what they argue we should do.

Deleted my Facebook account after the Cambridge Analytica scandal years ago, when it became clear they were a scumbag company, run by a scumbag. Haven't missed it once since, good riddance

It takes a lawsuit or a threat of a lawsuit to get any company to do anything that might affect their bottom line negatively.

We need a corporate death penalty.

Businesses are not people. Don't expect them to act like "good" people. Regulation and unions are the only things that shape the morality of a busniess.

Profit is valued more than life or ecology. Everything is short term gain with these heartless, greedy motherfuckers.

They will keep doing what they want, in other ways or the same and hide it better, and pay fines if caught again. These states should have kept it going to expose all the evidence for We The People to see, but no, they don't really work for us as they are supposed to.

So they pay an inconsequential fine, and they will be "forced" by the government to implement age verification checks, so everybody on Facebook and Instagram will be identifiable by the MAGAs.

Gee, I feel so defended. /S

Dude, the judicious application and consequences of the law are the only reason corporations even vaguely wave a hand towards being responsible.

Zuck needs to be impaled, Vlad the Impaler style impaled. We need to make that a legal execution method, and then apply it to him.

If you think this is a joke, China and Vietnam literally execute CEOs they find guilty of massive financial crimes.

They're more humane about it than impaling, but Zuck doesn't deserve humanity.

They'll use it as an excuse to double down on spying for the orange fascist.

why not? they're beholden to the shareholders. what do the shareholders care about safety?

As much as i despise Meta and our governments who collude with them, my biggest disappointment is our fellow citizens who enable them the most.

Proves they know exactly what they're doing, and that they profit from it. They won't stop doing something profitable without being forced to by law.

They're paying a fine

Are they even implementing safety measures? Doubt it.

"it shouldn't have taken a lawsuit for this evil company to implement safety measures" it's like the whistleblower never met humanity.

Too big to fail is also too big to care.

You can tell when they get too big because they stop caring.

A little competition goes a long way. When that doesn't work, government intervention.

Now watch as the users ignore, or bypass them altogether.

welcome to capitalism, whistleblower.