[Taywee]

I think that's a strong reaction. Corporate damage control and prevention of profit loss will look pretty much the same whether they're covering something up or just correcting the record. If there's a threat to profits, an industry and corporation will usually attempt to prevent or attack it regardless of any connection to the truth.

[mandmandam]

> "just correcting the record"

If that phrase isn't triggering your alarm bells, I don't know what to tell you...

> "If there's a threat to profits, an industry and corporation will usually attempt to prevent or attack it regardless of any connection to the truth."

Oh okay, you do get it lol.

The thing is though, it doesn't have to be like this. We allow it to be at our own mortal peril, and that isn't even remotely hyperbole.

[Taywee]

"Correcting the record" isn't inherently malicious, and a company attacking something does not indicate a likely cover up. That reasoning is overly cynical and fallacious. I'm no fan of corporations or overlarge industries (and their respective lobbyists), but the way I see them is like large organisms. They are neither good nor evil, simply consumed by self-preservation and the drive to thrive.

[walleeee]

questions of good and evil aside, these sorts of organisms have subsumed human beings into a new composite apex predator

paperclip maximizers are real, they're made of code and people

[Taywee]

I agree entirely, but it's not relevant to my point. Understanding the problems with an entity is completely different from assuming that every bad rumor about that entity is true, or taking the position that the entity can never actually be right.

You can't fight problems from a position that doesn't consider things realistically. You just lump yourself in with all the other raving conspiracy theorists.

[walleeee]

Fair, I don't think we disagree

[BOOSTERHIDROGEN]

paperclip maximizers?