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If companies are "people" in the legal sense, why isn't there a 'corporate death penalty' for utter gross violations that would get real humans locked in a case
by crankylinuxuser 8y ago
If companies are "people" in the legal sense, why isn't there a 'corporate death penalty' for utter gross violations that would get real humans locked in a case for decades?
Is the CFAA only for fleshers? Why so?
- _jal 8y agoBecause that legal fiction is only employed when it is convenient for the owners of the fictive "people" in question.
- manigandham 8y agoI don't know about all that. The "why" is because it's a 12-figure global industry including two of the most valuable companies in the world with unlimited resources and lobbying power, combined with highly technical mechanics and a complex network of business relationships that no politicians have any real understanding of. I must add that there's also a (sometimes irrationally) strong reaction by those politicians and many others to working with anyone in adtech to even attempt to solve these problems which clearly doesn't help.