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What, do you want companies to be responsible for the negative externalities of their products? Next you'll want oil companies to pay for cleaning up their mes
by leggomylibro 9y ago
What, do you want companies to be responsible for the negative externalities of their products?
Next you'll want oil companies to pay for cleaning up their messes, and banks to pay for financial crises, and data processors to take responsibility for their huge data breaches.
That's crazy talk - where are we, the people's republic of canada?
- goialoq 9y agoAnd you'll want Verizon to monitor the content of your phone calls to catch fraudsters. Oh, wait, what was the narrative again?
- cooper12 9y agoYawn, muh slippery slope. According to people like you, we should never do anything because it might result on something. Don't invent strawmen arguments. No one is saying anything about phone calls here.
- smt88 9y agoYour analogy makes no sense. For Verizon to catch fraudsters, they have to police their customers' behavior. The key is customers' behavior, not their own behavior. Oil companies don't need to violate customers' privacy to clean up oil. They don't need to do anything negative to customers at all. The same is true of banks paying for financial crises and Equifax paying to privacy damage. All they'd be doing is fixing their own mistakes, not policing their customers or users. As for the relationship with OP: Facebook's users and customers are different. Because such a large percentage of the public uses Facebook, the company's duty to protect its users should come ahead of its duty to protect its customers. If FB kills a few shady corporations, it's not nearly as bad as if those shady corporations harm actual human beings.
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- gbacon 9y agoRegulators, the Federal Reserve, politicians, and commissioners ought to pay a price too when they inflict damage. How is it just for them to be immune to the negative consequences of their actions? Why don’t they even rate a mention in this list of culprits?