That's it?! Just 3 million?! Also, why are the execs who orchestrated this not personally liable as well?! This insanely small award from a corporate behemoth just encourages corporate terror. Fucking disgusting.
The execs who did this need to be in prison. Any lower level employee would have been arrested and charged with a felony
While the CEO didn't unfortunately and I'd consider that an injustice, the other 2 did.
Baugh was among seven former employees who ultimately pleaded guilty to charges in the case. He was sentenced in 2022 to almost five years in prison. Another former executive, David Harville, was sentenced to two years.
Personal liability is for poor people.
Like seriously how is this not stochastic terrorism?
Its is. 2 of 3 execs involved are in prison. The 3rd was just vague enough to skate by.
Stochastic terrorism is spreading hatred and fear that is likely to make someone, somewhere, commit a violent act against the targets (or individuals within the targeted demographic). In this case, specific eBay employees were told to target this specific couple to shut them up. I don't know how precise the instructions were but the targets, and the people told to target them, were not random.
Because you live in a capitalist playground, not a citizen’s democracy.
The $3 million criminal penalty was the maximum possible fine under the charges.
That's messed up.
How is it, I've never heard of this until now?
That's super terrible business tactics.
And super bizarre for a company of eBay's size...
"Hey boss, someone is saying mean things on the internet. What should we do? Send a cease and desist? File a lawsuit?"
"Naw, send 'em a box of spiders."
To be clear she wasn’t just sent spiders. This woman had a targeted harassment and stalking campaign conducted against her for months by six people. They went to her house and sent her threatening messages that implied she might be in danger.
And used a GPS tracker on their vehicle so they could advertise sexual ads on Craigslist at their house. Wtf.
They didn’t actually do that.
But they tried.
Didn't know they were unsuccessful but still...wtf just bizarre behaviour
There’s a lot of wtf here, I’ll start with — why is eBay doing Scientology kind of shit to people
I don't get it, why would they do this? I can't fathom why
An article by a nobody isn't going to affect eBay in the slightest
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