Comment by pixl97
10 hours ago
Are you telling me that companies might defraud people for millions and billions of dollars and pay fines that are 1000% less than their profits?" My goodness, you must live on a hell planet.
Sorry there for the smarminess but fraud is just a standard business practice these days and fines are the cost of doing business.
And I really am all for someone suing these companies forcing discovery so we can see how the sausage is made and how many eyeballs are in it.
The question isn't whether the penalty would be less than their profit, it's whether the penalty would be less than whatever they make by secretly downgrading the models (or whatever it is you suspect), which remember also causes consumers to get less value out of the product and more likely to cancel.
The reputational hit, if this was to be confirmed, would also be massive. And I do think it would leak! Some employee would say something.