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I love Matt Levine, but I think he missed the point there, as I don't see anything wrong with what Google is doing, when taking into consideration everything Le
by htk 7y ago
I love Matt Levine, but I think he missed the point there, as I don't see anything wrong with what Google is doing, when taking into consideration everything Levandowski did.
- perl4ever 7y agoWhat is the reason you think it should be more than a civil matter? It's certainly not obvious to everyone.
- htk 7y agoIANAL but because it involves theft (of information).
- perl4ever 7y agoI don't think anyone (particularly Levine who is/was a lawyer and law clerk) is saying they are in some doubt as to whether there is a criminal law this falls under. It just strikes people as wrong and kind of scary for it to be criminal and not civil. When things are stolen from ordinary people, and the police don't stumble across the act in progress, they are pretty blase. They don't say "oh, you have a dispute with someone? Well, we'll arrest them and put them in jail for a million years". You deal with it through insurance, and/or lawsuits, don't you? Because as a citizen, the police don't work for you. It feeds into the anti-corporate feelings these days in a visceral way, so one may ask "how did we get here, and what purpose does it serve?"