Coveted fiddler Ashley MacIsaac has launched a civil lawsuit against Google after being wrongly identified as a sex offender in the AI-generated summary.
they could always be sued. the standing of the plaintiffs can (and given the defendant, will) always be challenged. some of it is fundamental rights, some of it’s procedural wrangling.
Yes they could always be sued. But people tend to shy away from sueing big companies like google. Seeing someone else win, makes it feel possible. Plus it shows a strategy for winning. Thus increasing the number of people trying for a payday.
IMO the precedent needs to be a proportion or percentage based item, not an arbitrary number. Something big enough to massively hurt, like 30% of this or last years’ post tax profits will be fined and Alphabet and all subsidiaries will be deemed ineligible for any tax waivers, deductions, or credits for a number of years to be determined by a jury, no less than 1 no greater than 100.
1.5 million? That’s a rounding error at Google, they’ll still try to evade responsibility but that dollar amount is meaningless to them.
Add a handful of zeroes.
It’s all about setting a precedent.
The precedent that fucking around is going to hurt is what we need set.
Unfortunately jury trials set no precedent, even if they award damages. So Google can afford to lose because it’s almost always a jury trial.
Not a “legal” precedent. But a precedent that they can be sued, and they can lose. Causing more people to sue…
they could always be sued. the standing of the plaintiffs can (and given the defendant, will) always be challenged. some of it is fundamental rights, some of it’s procedural wrangling.
Yes they could always be sued. But people tend to shy away from sueing big companies like google. Seeing someone else win, makes it feel possible. Plus it shows a strategy for winning. Thus increasing the number of people trying for a payday.
IMO the precedent needs to be a proportion or percentage based item, not an arbitrary number. Something big enough to massively hurt, like 30% of this or last years’ post tax profits will be fined and Alphabet and all subsidiaries will be deemed ineligible for any tax waivers, deductions, or credits for a number of years to be determined by a jury, no less than 1 no greater than 100.
Don’t think you can get that from a civil suit. But I don’t disagree.