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I'm trying to remember the last time when a manufacturer chose doing the right thing and following the letter and spirit of the law... over profit. That's my po

I'm trying to remember the last time when a manufacturer chose doing the right thing and following the letter and spirit of the law... over profit. That's my point... even making this stuff available will inevitably turn into abuse.

squigz 3y ago
> doing the right thing > following the letter and spirit of the law These things do not go hand-in-hand. Corporations aren't going to "do the right thing", no, but they certainly are going to follow the (letter of the) law to some extent. I don't imagine Google pays millions of dollars to lawyers for them to sit around :P This sort of logic can be used to dismiss the entirety of law - after all, crime still exists despite being illegal, so what's the point, right? So again, the bigger issue is making it difficult/impossible for corporations to circumvent (hopefully sane) laws - and probably to minimize the influence they have on creating that legislation. Anyway, this is also why FOSS is important - assuming these systems were made free and open source, and a company wants to abuse their position... users aren't locked into their platform and can hopefully move to another