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I mentioned in my last comment about this being outright corruption by the Americans involved. Now it is time to mention the 1 positive that the USA has that o
by phantom_oracle 7y ago
I mentioned in my last comment about this being outright corruption by the Americans involved.
Now it is time to mention the 1 positive that the USA has that other countries(visibly) don't:
> The willingness and ability to sue as a collective
.org is a domain used by everyone from Wikipedia, UN, Debian and your national dog shelter.
Private Equity cares only about one thing: making money. Anybody with a toe in the finance world knows that these are the same people that will do "hostile takeovers" to strip companies of their assets, pile on debt and push out a sale.
A class-action lawsuit targeting the PE firm(or parties involved in the sale of .org) and then pushing your State Attorneys to investigate these corrupt individuals at a personal level will have the desired effect that appeals to the moral high-ground won't.
- kijin 7y agoI wholeheartedly agree. Letters like this only work for congresspeople, and even then only some of the time. For everyone else, lawsuits, injunctions, and criminal investigations are much more effective deterrents.