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Key points:

- This is the largest FTC fine in history

- It's 1 month's revenue for Facebook

- After news broke, Facebook's stock went up

It's also still not clear to me what the fine was for. What did Facebook do incorrectly and what law did they break?

Facebook gave away user data without permission, the very same thing it continuously promised to not do. Now that they know where the bar is placed, I am sure they will up the ante..

Just the price of doing crooked business.

No. I'd like to know on a technical level what was done. Anyone can scrape this information on users, they're friends and so on asking as persons made it public. The government does this at scale

Of course their stock went up, stockholders continue to be shocked at just how little backlash there is from the US Government.

Sometimes I think we forget how greedy people become in our country, and how that perpetuates inadequate justice in cases such as this or the many bank-related catastrophes in the past few years.

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