Woman Is Awarded $1.2 Billion in ‘Revenge Porn’ Lawsuit
Woman Is Awarded $1.2 Billion in ‘Revenge Porn’ Lawsuit
A jury ruled in favor of a Texas woman who said her ex-boyfriend had psychologically and sexually abused her by sharing intimate images of her online without her consent.
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Look, I get that she was wronged, but unless the defendant is Google or Microsoft, leveling damages like this is egregious and absurd.
They may have well awarded 150 billion dollars worth of damages. There's no way it'll ever be paid so what's the goal here? Showcase an astronomical amount as a flex?
Yes, it is a flex. It's an expression of zero tolerance for the kind of egregious shit this turkey was pulling.
The US system seems to use symbolic numbers, eg 200 years in jail for multiple murdering etc, pretty regularly. I don't see how this is any different.
You've got a point. America greatly prefers superfluous symbolism to sensible logic.
Yes, kind of like sentencing somebody to hundreds or years or multiple lifetimes for mass murder.
The point is not really the money. The point is the headline and the fact that there are remedies for when you can't pay a judgement. Like others said, his wages will be garnished forever. And this is one of the largest civil judgements ever. That plus the salacious nature means that anytime this guy's name is searched for, it will be beside this. It won't leave him.
Until we get better laws for things like revenge porn where there are actual criminal penalties, this is probably the best we can do.
You can't bleed a rock.