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It's basically nothing, compared to what they gain from not giving a damn about privacy. Which they'll continue to do.



Is there a specific amount you think they gain from not giving a damn about privacy? $5B is a lot of money! I worry that if you think it's "basically nothing", you would've thought that no matter how much it was.


Facebook's whole business model is to not give a damn about privacy.

Thus, all the money they make. All of it. The FTC now takes a small portion.

See Facebook care. (not)


But you're equivocating here. They're allowed to not give a damn about privacy in the broad sense you're using; the FTC fined them only for the small subset they weren't allowed to do.

If you think the government ought to just ban Facebook, sure, whatever, but that's not the FTC's job.




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