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Can't reinforce this enough. Would a bank hire a security company that has a previous bank robber on staff? Would you put your kids in a school that has a prev

• deogeo 8y ago
  You can make any move seem reasonable if you make a sufficiently bad analogy. A more comparable analogy would be one where the hypothetical security company isn't told who of their staff is banned, or for what reason they were banned. Maybe they were a bank robber, or maybe they were just doing business with bitcoin, and it's the bank's policy to ban all such businesses. And the security company isn't just not hired - they're banned from being hired ever again, from 88% of all banks in the world.
  • ucaetano 8y ago
    > A more comparable analogy would be one where the hypothetical security company isn't told who of their staff is banned That's what background checks are for. If you're hiring someone, it is your responsibility.
    • gbear605 8y ago
      A background check for having once owned bitcoin? (To go with the previous metaphor)
      • ucaetano 8y ago
        And not reporting your gains to the IRS? This wasn't a case of someone having had a previous developer account, but of someone having being banned for posting malware on the Play store.