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by SamoyedFurFluff 1200 days ago
My understanding is that if the fines ever become an existential threat then it motivates companies to commit criminal behavior but try to be sneakier about it, because in for a penny in for a pound.

Of course we’re finding out repeatedly that no threatening fines don’t prevent that behavior either. :/ there’s a theoretical fine line where just enough fines will prevent such behavior but frankly I’m having a harder and harder time believing such rhetoric.

Maybe it’s the ownership of such companies that are wrong. I highly doubt Cerebral would’ve made this decision in the first place if it was owned by regular people, especially regular mental health professionals.