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eBay pays $3m fine in blogger harassment case (www.bbc.com)

submitted 10 months ago by narwhal@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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[–] Tangentism@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

One 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]

[–] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

Two have been jailed. Cooke for 18m and Baugh for 5y. There is a third named person that has not been charged but was fired.

[–] jocanib@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thank you! Surprised the report didn't mention that (I was too lazy to do a search).

[–] Tangentism@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

S'all good! I was reading about it yesterday and was surprised that they already had the court cases