eBay hit with $3M fine, admits to “terrorizing innocent people”
arstechnica.com
eBay must pay maximum fine for putting Massachusetts couple “through pure hell.”

eBay’s harassment campaign against the couple, David and Ina Steiner, stretched for 18 days in August 2019 and was led by the company’s former senior director of safety and security, Jim Baugh. It started when then-CEO Devin Wenig and then-chief communications officer Steven Wymer decided to “take down” the Steiners after growing frustrated with their coverage of eBay in a newsletter called EcommerceBytes.

  • deegeese
    39·
    10 months ago

    If the defendant agreed to the maximum penalty, that tells you they’re being let off easy.

    Criminal acts by companies should include fines large enough to make the shareholders mad, or else there was no real punishment.

    • frog 🐸@beehaw.orgEnglish
      15·
      10 months ago

      Criminal acts by companies should include fines large enough to make the shareholders mad, or else there was no real punishment.

      All of their profits earned for each day when the harassment occurred sounds like a reasonably large fine. I don’t know how much profit eBay made in the 18 days their employees harassed these people, but I bet it was a lot more than $3 million.