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They need to make people responsible, not the corporate entity.
by sergiotapia 6y ago
They need to make people responsible, not the corporate entity.
- solarkraft 6y agoWhy? The company profited from the crime. That would create some interesting incentives.
- Nextgrid 6y agoBecause people will think twice before breaking the law if they can be personally held responsible and potentially even go to jail.
- cwhiz 6y agoYou can’t effectively punish a company, especially not a company the size of Facebook. But if individuals go to prison for their actions, people will be more careful how they act.
- scroogeydop 6y agoCorporate death penalty.
- hanniabu 6y agoNot sure why this is downvoted as it brings up an interesting position. Why can't there be violations so severe that they force the corporation to be dissolved?
- arrosenberg 6y agoIt happens, just less often than is probably healthy. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/us/ny-nra-lawsuit-letitia-james.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/us/ny-nra-lawsuit-letitia... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen
- jacquesm 6y agoI wished that was meted out as a punishment much more often than it is done today. It is a very powerful message to send: these execs are not bankable because they caused all of their shareholders to lose money.
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- hanniabu 6y agoSo what you're saying is that whenever i commit a crime i just need to do it under a business name and it's all good? It's simply ridiculous to think that.
- iso1631 6y agoEvery facebook shareholder profited from it
- dkersten 6y agoAnd people profited frim the crime too. Both should be held responsible.
- te_chris 6y agoBollocks. The company as an entity played naughty, so it should, as an entity, get punished. Otherwise the stakeholders get a free ride.
- iso1631 6y agoThere's two aspects 1) Punishing those that did the illegal thing 2) Punishing those that profited from the illegal thing If a mafia boss profits from getting a goon to rough up a shop owner for protection money, both the goon and the boss are punished.
- ummonk 6y agoWho? The lawyers who signed off on it? The PMs or engineers who followed the legal advice?
- wolco 6y agoPMs as they are responsible. Go after the lawyers licease if you will.