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by maeil 688 days ago
> they can penalize companies that do bad things.

This is inaccurate, and the article itself actually contradicts itself by showing that it's inaccurate.

They can penalize companies for lying. If the companies just stop lying that they do/will do/will not do/don't do a certain thing, there's no securities fraud. The issue is that they lie about it.