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> Similar punishment for similar transgressions is how the law is supposed to work.

Facebook and Equifax did not commit similar transgressions, and to say to is misleading.




I'm not sure anyone claims that, but obviously saying "Similar punishment for similar transgressions" means that different transgressions need not have the same punishments.




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