RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116290356659818320

"your honor, i should be found not liable because what i did was inevitable"

this is basically "too big to fail"
"we are simply too big" oh ok, well i can think of a solution to that...
@peter what's super irritating is if you, on this server, did the same stuff, you'd definitely get in trouble. But you have no money! Meta at the end of October issued USD 30,000,000,000 in bonds! A single billion USD would pay 1,000 people $20/hour for 24-hour shifts for more than 5 years. They can afford to fix the problem exactly because they are so big. In fact I think that was an argument they've used in anti-trust contexts? Or maybe not?

@peter

But Your Honor, let's not be ridiculous. We can't provide safety for users - it would break our business model.