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Re:Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People by tabeth on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @06:33PM (#15752740)
No no. My point probably just wasn't properly conveyed. In the original post I replied to the person the person encouraged their friends to use Lyft after hearing about the terrible things over at Uber.

Presumably they want friends to switch over as to not support an organization they disagree with, but my point was that doing so is pretty much impossible to begin with. If the goal is to not support organizations that do things you disagree with it's futile.

Therefore, one should just decide arbitrarily. It really doesn't matter.

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Re:Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People by lern_too_spel on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @07:51PM (#15753220)
Taking money away from a bad company helps stop that company from doing bad. Similarly, voting for a politician who will try not to kill civilians helps prevent civilians from being killed. Both of these are correct actions to take. Moving out of the country is comparatively less effective, and continuing to give money to the bad company is not effective at all.
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Re:Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People by tabeth on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @08:14PM (#15753356)
I agree with you in general, but unfortunately things are never that simple. Most companies do good too, otherwise they wouldn't exist.
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Re:Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People by d3ad1ysp0rk on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @10:08PM (#15753913)
"things are never that simple" says the guy who is implying that you shouldn't think about whether a company is moral/not if you live in a country that does horrible things?
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Re:Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People by tabeth on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @12:07AM (#15754404)
Heh, yeah I'll admit the original post and the subsequent responses were pretty dumb. Can't change the past (no really, I couldn't edit it even if I wanted).
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