eBay pays $3m fine in blogger harassment case
eBay pays $3m fine in blogger harassment case
Executives sent live spiders and cockroaches to a US couple who criticised the firm, court papers show.
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The subhead misses out the worst stuff. How on earth?
Criminal charges still in the works, I would hope.
17 0 ReplyOne of them was already jailed back in 2021 and the others were awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57997117 [apologies for the bbc link so heres an archive link as an alt: https://archive.ph/QIGcn]
10 0 ReplyTwo have been jailed. Cooke for 18m and Baugh for 5y. There is a third named person that has not been charged but was fired.
5 0 ReplyThank you! Surprised the report didn't mention that (I was too lazy to do a search).
3 0 ReplyS'all good! I was reading about it yesterday and was surprised that they already had the court cases
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Yeah seriously. This is some wannabe mafia shit. Spiders? Funeral wreath? Tracking their car?
Dude you work at a e-commerce company that peaked in 2005.
8 0 ReplyFor real! I was like, "oh, they probably got some emails and calls that were a bit abrasive"
Wow, was I wrong!! Not only are these executives some real snowflakes, but they're also psychopaths. Shit, i hope they don't read this message, lest a fetal pig be delivered to my door 👀
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