This is huge.. if it goes through

Like I said, this is huge, if it goes through

$200 billion isn't a slap on the wrist, it's a real punishment. Facebook can't just cut a check and continue on, they're going to have to make hard choices if they are made to pay up. Florida alone could still drain the company dry on this case, but more importantly it sets a precedent

Since we don't have a functioning system of corporate punishment, it's all case law. I'm sure Facebook is going to fight it with everything they have, so it's not nearly over... But if this goes through anyways? That could change things

Fuck if I know. We can revoke a corporate charter through an act of Congress for any or no reason, we have trust busting laws that allow courts to split a company, individual states can decide to restrict or kick out a company...

We have mechanisms to do these things, but we don't really have a system of corporate criminal punishment. It's one of those problems of using an early version of democracy... Courts can fine and impose sanctions, they can prosecute individuals for their part, but as time went on instead of legislating a system of corporate punishment it's just been left to case law

Which doesn't work out well, because corporations have grown to the point they can dump more way money into legal defense than the courts can put into prosecution

So the answer to your question is basically that it doesn't matter how much they violate the law, they're to big and too powerful for the courts to handle them with the tools available