[themagician]

If a regular person routinely disregards the law because they don't agree with it they go to prison.

But when a $40 billion tech startup does it, it's cool.

Got it.

[ars]

> If a regular person routinely disregards the law because they don't agree with it they go to prison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience

[icebraining]

On what basis are you assuming that the_ancient wouldn't also support a regular person who was also breaking a law that the_ancient believes shouldn't exist?

[Retra]

Yes, organizations have more power and importance than individuals. This has been true everywhere throughout most of human history.

[techdragon]

Which is why allowing them to undertake acts of civil disobedience is just letting in the Visigoths.

If money and power is allowed to buy a company greater ability to ignore the law than an individual human citizen... We all may as well call it a day, write the entire system off and start thinking about how the next one should work. Unless I see a counter example of say Google or Apple ignoring a stupid encryption must have back doors type law then we have zero examples of corporations ignoring the law for good... Vs hundreds of examples of them ignoring the law for evil, and a handful of examples where the good vs evil question is uncertain but should still be considered bad because they are breaking the law.