Everything counts in large amounts as Depth Mode once sang. Especially in the corporate world, everything is measured in “financial risk” and PR management costs. If Google can make $10 million in doing some shady shit they will sure as hell do it if the fines will be less than $100 thousand.
So, I have an idea… Whena large corporation is caught with their pants down… Let’s say a global fashion brand that got caught using child labor and the CEO cashed $20 million in bonuses…
Then the question for the CEO should not be “Are you sorry?” but “How sorry are you? Are you $500 thousand sorry? $1 million sorry? $10 million sorry? $50 million sorry?”
That’s how you create an interest in the leadership of corporations of actually taking responsibility of their actions.
HBO apologizing means nothing. They can and will probably similar shit in the future because no one actually loses anything they hold dear.