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Every time there's a corporate scandal of sorts (Boeing and Wells Fargo come to mind as recents), the people here scream for accountability. So what say ye, Go

• stjohnswarts 7y ago
  No but the government should start some crippling fines like "google thou shalt be broken into 3 companies and pay 50% of last years revenues". If it's just a couple million bucks that's nothing to google but permanent damage to the company would put the fear of Dog into them.
  • harry8 7y ago
    Probability of succeding in that aim is small. Probability of making that an immaterial expense to google by burying it with lawyers and taking it as far as the supreme court is close to 100%. Personal accoutability or bust. It's a very different management analysis if "I could go to jail."
• harry8 7y ago
  Until senior management and boards of directors are facing the very real prospect of prison all criminal behavior will be treated with statistical analysis of expected values; expected gain versus exected loss with being caught simply a business expense that probably won't even need to be paid. Even the most egrarious action resulting in extreme cases such as preventable death will be in a spreadsheet. How is whistle blowing going for engineers who hate this? Who could you report it to? Who would write the proper story without burying it for political friends (NYT, WSJ) or burning you as the source (Guardian)? Is there anywhere who will publish credible material they've received no matter what while doing everything to protect sources?