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People are ignoring the media aspect to all of this. You do not want such a public case to go unpunished or ignored by the state. If some random phone gets los
by fierarul 17y ago
People are ignoring the media aspect to all of this. You do not want such a public case to go unpunished or ignored by the state.
If some random phone gets lost obviously you aren't going to spend too much resources on this because there aren't enough available. I'm pretty sure not all such individual cases are ignored, so it's not like only the corporations "receive justice".
But, having such a public case about a presumably lost prototype, etc. be ignored is a sign that the state considers this to be ok or of low importance. You do not want that idea to spread into the mainstream. Justice isn't just about busting dors, it's also a marketing (or propaganda) issue.
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- chc 17y agoIf we use this logic, we must conclude that it is more acceptable in the state's eyes (or at least the state wants everybody to think it is more acceptable) to murder children than to take photos of a prototype phone. This is an extremely disturbing case if your suggested reasoning is correct.
- anigbrowl 17y agoNo more than we must conclude two HN comments from different posters represent yCombinator's corporate viewpoint.
- chc 17y agoThat's not similar, because we are not representatives of HN. Government employees using their authority do represent the government.
- anigbrowl 17y agoWhich government? We have thousands of them in US, in case you hadn't noticed. My point is that 'the state' is not a monolithic entity, and the comparison of two different crimes in different jurisdictions in different decades doesn't mean anything very much.