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> non-state > economic, not political There’s a well known phenonenom of a certain large nation harbouring cybercrime gangs and keeping them on the government
by waihtis 5y ago
> non-state
> economic, not political
There’s a well known phenonenom of a certain large nation harbouring cybercrime gangs and keeping them on the government leash. Their economic activity benefits the governments political agenda. Ergo all conditions are true.
- vkou 5y agoThere's also a well-known phenomena of large nations harboring multi-national corporations that break the law in other nations they operate in. That doesn't mean that the large, developed nations in question are engaging in organized crime. Taking advantage of regulatory arbitrage does not mean that their government is in collusion with them. If it did, then we could pile a lot of crimes at the feet of Western governments. Some mining firm violently puts down a strike in Central America? Clearly, we can conclude that Canada/the US is engaging in terrorism! [1] [1] https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1272&context=all_papers https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?... [2] [2] 28 Canadian companies, 44 deaths, 30 of which were targeted extra-judicial killings. Are we going to lay those at the feet of Parliament, too? [3] [3] Or do we have one set of standards for Russia, and another for our own behaviour?
- waihtis 5y agoThere is no sense to your comparison when you’re putting a criminal enterprise (which exists to do harm and harm only) and legitimate business into the same bucket.