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.

  • Kaldo@kbin.social
    6·
    10 months ago

    Someone must have signed off on this and thst person should have gotten jail time IMHO.

    • Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.org
      4·
      10 months ago

      According to the article, most of them did (as they should):

      All seven former eBay employees have been convicted on felony charges, the DOJ said. As the “ringleader,” Baugh was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison. Others have received prison sentences between 12 and 24 months. Two former employees were sentenced to a year of home confinement. One co-conspirator has pleaded guilty and is still awaiting sentencing.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      It may have been a “Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?” kind of deal.