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by JackPoach 1757 days ago
Did you study the work of Ralph Nader and the auto industry? Or the history of tobacco industry? There are multiple examples when it worked in the past. I am quite confident that when abuse goes too far, the pushback is even bigger. I just don't want to oversimplify the issue and say that any big corporation or any IT giant is bad by nature. It's growing pains in my book.
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Yeah I know all about Nader. What you’re talking about took decades of fines after those companies lobbied endlessly to avoid blame. I think you just supported my argument. Big tobacco companies literally couldn’t be fined enough to make a difference for 60+ years. I’d guess sunshine is more correlated than fines to preventing large corporations from doing awful things. I’m not sure why you’re shilling the opposite.