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Why punish the employees of a business when the root cause is corrupt government employees abusing their power? Edit to respond to smt88: IBM knowingly sellin
by lotsofpulp 6mo ago
Why punish the employees of a business when the root cause is corrupt government employees abusing their power?
Edit to respond to smt88:
IBM knowingly selling services to the Nazis specifically to violate human rights is not the same as Flock selling services to cops to aid in identification. In addition, going after 1 business is simply an inefficient use of resources, when the government employees can simply use a different business to abuse their power.
- LocalH 6mo agoI didn't say the employees should be imprisoned. I said the c-suite, the ones actually in charge. They're enabling these cops to be lazy and not do their job properly, and have directly contributed to numerous human rights violations.
- lotsofpulp 6mo agoC Suite are employees too. I do not see them breaking any laws, but I do see government employees abusing their power, if not breaking the law.
- toast0 6mo agoC-suite are officers. Officers have more responsibility.
- toast0 6mo agoC-suite are officers. Officers have more responsibility for the conduct of the company than employees.
- anigbrowl 6mo agoNo they're not, they're executives who can only be fired by the board. Equating them with line-level employees is somewhere between naive and isingenuous.
- LocalH 6mo agoSure, and Elon Musk is just a Twitter employee
- jumpconc 6mo agoC-Suite are the top level of the company. Above them is only the board of directors, whose power is limited to firing the C-Suite if they don't like what they're doing. In day to day operations, the C-Suite controls the entire company.
- smt88 6mo agoDo you think IBM executives should've been punished for facilitating the Nazi war machine after WW2? If you sell a tool and know that it'll be used for evil, are you innocent?
- LocalH 6mo ago> Do you think IBM executives should've been punished for facilitating the Nazi war machine after WW2? Emphatic yes Bayer lost their exclusive rights to aspirin because they aided the Central Powers during WW1
- Zigurd 6mo agoYour question is too unspecific. We're talking about cop tech and surveillance, which has a very specific business ecosystem.
- smt88 6mo agoWhy didn't you just respond to my comment instead of editing? Anyway you didn't explain how IBM and Flock are different. Flock's work has already resulted in innocent citizens getting murdered extrajudiciously.