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burningChromeyesterday at 9:23 PM3 repliesview on HN

This is so true. When you have a billion users, you can literally lose hundreds of millions of users and it wouldn't make a dent. The only way is to get the government involved and regulate this and just keep hammering them with massive fines that really make a dent in their bottom line.

For a lot of people, government regulation of this sort is not desirable, but at what point does someone need to drop the hammer to stop this?


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ASalazarMXyesterday at 9:57 PM

I guess you're used to standard billions (a million millions). A US billion would certainly suffer from losing hundreds of millions, you're talking about a double-digit percent.

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yndoendoyesterday at 10:45 PM

Something like three strikes and the CEO, top executives, and three primary share holders go to jail while forcing the company to dissolve seems to be the only solution to removing bad actors in corporate settings.

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alex1138yesterday at 11:19 PM

> When you have a billion users

What if they make a shadow profile for you? Do you count as a user? What if you've tried to delete your account and you can't? (I meant a real account here, not even a shadow profile. People have had the things reactivated years later)