“Does Facebook expect to quickly collect 873 million dollars and share the proceeds in some way with our users?” Mr Kelley asked in a posting on the Facebook blog. “Alas, no. …. But we are confident that this award represents a powerful deterrent to anyone and everyone who would seek to abuse Facebook and its users”
What? Someone spams FB, gets fined a stupid amount of money and is told never to use FB again or contact any of it’s members (So he says “Hi” to me and what happens?). Where is the penalty here? I see none. In fact, for kicks why doesn’t someone try to get a higher penalty against them?
Why in the USA do ridiculous monetary awards get handed down? It’s nonsense in every single respect.