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A comment on Cisco’s Attempt to Dodge Responsibility for Facilitating Human Rights Abuses. Parent comment

Re:Cisco’s Attempt to Dodge Responsibility for Facilitating ... by PhasmaFelis on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @04:37PM (#11530163)
What is it with all the "yes of course you should help torture people if it's good for your business" in this thread? Hacker News is usually pretty laissez-faire, but this isn't the normal tone here.
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Re:Cisco’s Attempt to Dodge Responsibility for Facilitating ... by jessaustin on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @06:47PM (#11531095)
Hacker News is usually pretty laissez-faire, but this isn't the normal tone here.

I think one can distinguish between laissez-faire that amounts to "leave human beings to live as they will" and another concept that is "everything is permitted to the powerful". Actually IMHO it is a corruption to consider the latter to even be related to laissez-faire. However, many people conflate the two propositions, and would like the rest of us to conflate them as well.

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Re:Cisco’s Attempt to Dodge Responsibility for Facilitating ... by jonathankoren on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @05:02PM (#11530391)
It's an election year. That always brings out the most extreme positions. Especially since shocking extreme positions seems to be par for the course this cycle.
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