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by banish-m4 754 days ago
It's legal in the US when a lobbyist is involved and too big to jail.

Corporate attitude: Just do the risk management of paying "parking tickets" vs. "buying a parking permit".

"Do no evil"

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My feeling is that they'd rather buy the parking lot management company than pay their parking fine. With a cash reserve of $108bn (1) then it's all just FU money at this point, it really doesn't matter - there's no consequences for their wrongdoing.

(This is more of a cynic, generalised comment about Google and companies in the same position abusing their power than directly specific to this case. And yes, I was around from the start when they "did no evil"; it's just depressing.)

((1: According to https://companiesmarketcap.com/alphabet-google/cash-on-hand/ ))

By the way, it was actually "Don't be evil".