Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti...
by yummyfajitas on Friday March 03, 2017 @06:45PM
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So you oppose Apple and other tech companies lobbying for gay and transgender rights? Or Google lobbying for net neutrality?
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Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti...
by razorunreal on Friday March 03, 2017 @08:44PM
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That powers are sometimes used for good does not imply the existence of those powers is a net positive.
Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti...
by someguydave on Friday March 03, 2017 @09:06PM
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No but I am for Google and Apple investors holding the management to their fiduciary duty to turn a profit. Lobbying for gay rights seems very loosely connected to that goal.
Edit: There is not a fiduciary duty to turn a profit, but there is a fiduciary duty to put the corporation's interests above your personal interests.
Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti...
by fjdlwlv on Friday March 03, 2017 @10:57PM
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There is no fiduciary duty to turn a profit
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by someguydave on Friday March 03, 2017 @11:02PM
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You are right - thanks for the correction. However, there is certainly a fiduciary duty to put the interests of the corporation above your personal interests as a high-level manager.
Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti...
by jlarocco on Friday March 03, 2017 @08:32PM
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Yes, I'm against corporate lobbying in all cases, even when they're lobbying for causes that I believe in like LGBT rights and net neutrality. I would be quite a hypocrite if I only supported corporate lobbying when it was for causes that I agreed with. Ideally corporations would have no place in politics.
And please don't conflate "doesn't support lobbying for XXX" with "doesn't support XXX". They're really orthogonal concepts.