[blueboo]

The current system highly incentivises sufficiently large corporations to embrace the Nike principles: Break the rules, fight the law

The worst case scenario, if you lose a game stacked in your favour several times in a row, you pay a pittance, or performatively correct a now-obsolete injustice.

VScode telemetry will remain opt out because it yields very valuable information. Microsoft is not a democracy, and the outcry here is less than a rounding error, a footnote in some internal director’s morning agenda.

[barrysteve]

The current system highly incentivizes pretending not to know.

Obtaining power at any cost requires the internal director to pretend he doesn't know, what he's doing.

The vast majority of social capital is made by lying to people, pretending to not know you've done it and dropping relationships with anybody who is not pulling in your direction.

Silence is vastly underrated, I say ironically, so I shouldn't be typing this out.

[not_your_vase]

Oh, I find this note quite interesting. I noticed that every time when a BigCo's shenanigans come to light, many people are ready to scream Hanlon's razor!one111!! - and BigCo is very happy to accept this reasoning every single time. It's like they are prepared in advance to use it as a defense, in case their doings come to light. Even if the same thing keeps repeating again and again and again and...