And if they are caught doing something illegal, they'll face a few million dollar fine so the FCC can show how tough they are, while Verizon will keep a hundred million dollars in ill gotten profits.
And whatever fine the FCC (or other government agency) gives them will not be sufficient to teach Verizon that this behavior is unacceptable.
Yup. The FCC fined Verizon $1.35 million for using supercookies without users' permission, which is unlikely to change the behavior of a company that paid its 4 top executives over $40 million in total in 2015.