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You realize J&J is a massive company with a huge range of products? Imagine if Google was fined 50% of a year’s revenue because of Google Voice. That’s a mass
by refurb 4y ago
You realize J&J is a massive company with a huge range of products?
Imagine if Google was fined 50% of a year’s revenue because of Google Voice.
That’s a massive penalty by any measure.
- dzader 4y agoImagine if google was knowingly killing people with google voice for decades
- arrosenberg 4y agoI would imagine Google as a corporation would be more careful about giving people cancer. “We are too big for accountability” has been a bad idea every time it has been used in America.
- evilduck 4y agoMore importantly, Google's competitors would also be more careful about it too. Kill a giant after it steps on people and other giants will learn to tiptoe.
- chii 4y agoThe only way to kill a giant is to have an even bigger giant. What then, if the biggest giant is now the one killing people?
- arrosenberg 4y agoIdeally a combination of intracompetitive federal agencies that form a legal Voltron when required.
- evilduck 4y agoGulliver's Travels says otherwise. It's an analogy, trying to take it too far will get silly.
- 93po 4y agoIf I gave 40,000 people cancer as an individual and killed several thousands of people as a result, I wouldn't lose 3 years of disposal income. I would lose all of it, forever, as I sit and rot in prison for the rest of my life. This is the sort of punishment we need for corporations.
- refurb 4y ago40,000 people got cancer from talc? Please link the research paper that shows that. Everybody thinks personal injury lawyers are slimy but then quotes their “data” like it was proven fact.
- westpfelia 4y agoWhat do you think the lawsuit was about? You think J&J is being forced to pay the measly 8.9 billion just because they want this to go away? 40,000 people got cancer that we know of. People should be in jail.
- _a_a_a_ 4y agoWhere is this figure given? I can't see it (may have skipped over it accidentally)
- freeone3000 4y agoIt is the number of members in the class.
- Auracle 4y agoWhich would just be people that got a relevant cancer that also used the product - that signed up to be part of the class. People get cancer all the time. It’s very, very hard to prove a causal relationship.
- freeone3000 4y ago
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- refurb 4y agoWho is shilling? The data suggesting asbestos in talc is a real health hazard is tenuous at best. A bunch of class action lawyers just made $30B dollars. So we know they’re happy either way. I thought HN followed tge sxience?
- lakecresva 4y agoWho are you even responding to? No one's arguing the science, they're talking about the size of the settlement relative to the corporation's financials.
- arrosenberg 4y agoJ&J should be punitively punished for knowing about asbestos in their product and hiding it from the public. Whether or not anyone died as a result, corporations should not be allowed to be malfeasant and get away with it because only a small number of people were provably harmed. Corporations should have to behave like the cops are watching them.
- refurb 4y agoThey never hid it?
- arrosenberg 4y agok. > Johnson & Johnson executives knew for decades about the risk of asbestos exposure linked to its talc products, including the famous baby powder it began selling 129 years ago. After years of pushing back on researchers and scientists, the company began facing a flood of lawsuits in recent years, along with government investigations and lawmaker inquiries.
- gnicholas 4y ago
- triyambakam 4y agoIf Google Voice killed people then yeah, that'd be fair.