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I like the result. Too many people hide behind “I was just doing my job and helping the company.” At some point you have to make a personal stand to not harm

I like the result. Too many people hide behind “I was just doing my job and helping the company.” At some point you have to make a personal stand to not harm humanity. And programmers reading this, that era is definitely upon us. When we see programmers charged who implemented the twisted evil shit Facebook or whoever ordered them to, we will be making some progress on fixing the problem.

paulmd 5y ago
and in particular, it appears this guy was actively talking about how to deceive the FAA and avoid attention, so yeah... fuck him, this isn't a random fall guy, this is a chief test pilot who was in on the plan. again, by all means, this should not be the only prosecution here, and if they can flip him on the rest of his conspirators then he should get a reduced sentence, that's the standard RICO playbook. But prosecution is the lever you use to flip the ones you catch on the rest of their conspirators, and this guy very clearly was a willful participant in this criminal enterprise. (obviously the jury gets to decide that, but this isn't a courtroom, and barring some gross miscarriage of justice, the quotes they're presenting sound pretty damning)