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Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti... by boomboomsubban on Friday March 03, 2017 @04:03PM (#13786525)
>A corporation can do none of those things.

Yes they can, they just need to hide that they're doing it or keep the government on their side.

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Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti... by skookumchuck on Friday March 03, 2017 @06:12PM (#13787795)
Some examples that illustrate your assertion, please.
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Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti... by LnxPrgr3 on Friday March 03, 2017 @08:35PM (#13788586)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jul/01/macys-shopl...

Not killing, but taking of liberty and property through their own extrajudicial system of justice.

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Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti... by skookumchuck on Friday March 03, 2017 @09:41PM (#13788839)
And a judge ruled that Macy's did not have a legitimate power to do that. This example does not make the case that corporations have such power.
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Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti... by LnxPrgr3 on Friday March 03, 2017 @10:52PM (#13789127)
The law did grant them powers to run pieces of this scheme that a judge decided they took way too far. And they got to run it for years before a judge stopped it.

And AFAIK no one running Macy's went to jail, so the penalty isn't the same as I'd get if I, say, imprisoned my neighbors and stole their credit cards to get payment for packages I think they stole from the porch.

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Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti... by skookumchuck on Saturday March 04, 2017 @02:39AM (#13789839)
They exceeded what they could legally do, and were stopped.

Contrast that with, say, civil forfeiture. Cops can stop you for little reason, and if they find cash in your car, they can take it. It's all perfectly legal. This is not theoretical, it happens all the time and enormous amounts of money are installed.

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