Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ad campaigns for his Minecraft channel using a company credit card — bill racked up in just three weeks was supposed to be one $20 promotion
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  • Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    28 days ago

    ITT: person deserves life changing debt and losing his job because he made a mistake

    Cmon yall, you can be critical of someone’s actions while also recognizing 6 figures of debt is absurd and not a reasonable outcome of this.

    What really should be the case is that the dad learns his lesson, loses company card access, kid learns his lesson, google writes it off, and the kid’s account is permanently banned.

    We don’t need to ruin someone’s life for this

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      28 days ago

      Legally, the kid wasn’t old enough to contract the ads.

      It would not stand in court.

      I question using his work card to pay for some robucks for his kid.

      I question that his credit card was saved for Robucks, but was able to be used on Google Ads.

      I would not be surprised if he lost his job. I think that’s not unreasonable though the economy sucks.