Originally Posted by RocHard

I'm a little bit confused. If a company breaks the law they get fined. They surely don't get all of the companies assets frozen. I mean, I'm pretty fucking sure I can walk into my local grocery store and find half a dozen health code violations - does this mean we should freeze the assets of a nation wide chain of grocery stores?

What gives the government the right to freeze the assets of a company that broke a minor law aimed stopping SPAM which has really in effect done nothing other than costing the tax payers millions of dollars to write the laws?