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> One difference is lawyers are regulated, licensed professionals who have to follow ethics rules LOL

• dodobirdlord 6y ago
  Seriously though, lawyers are basically never sanctioned or disbarred, and the level of misbehavior required to invite sanctions is extremely high.
  • washadjeffmad 6y ago
    So it's an effective deterrent? What matters is there's a recognized process for it. What does Facebook call doing something profitable that crosses a legal or ethical boundary before their competitors can do it? Promotable innovation, probably.
  • ianai 6y ago
    There are some crazy high requirements to become a lawyer though.
    • brianwawok 6y ago
      Easier to become a lawyer than a Facebook or similar sized tech co?
  • runawaybottle 6y ago
    Maybe lawyers are operating under mutually assured destruction? You sue me I’ll sue you. You find evidence, I’ll say the evidence needs to be thrown out. I don’t know if they operate with impunity. Compare it to tech, where it’s basically ‘you signed the TOS’, and the discussion ends there. We have yet to see a case where someone argues ‘Your TOS was misleading’, which would be the watershed case we’d need to establish some precedent.