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Re:Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Con... by jgaa on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @07:08AM (#17354230)
> Corporations are no less evil than governments. If anything, they may be more evil, as they are motivated solely by profit and have no particular reason to care about the population at large.

Corporations are accountable. They are accountable as entities, and as individuals (owners, managers, employees). If they do fatal decisions, the corporation may go bankrupt. If people act immoral, they may get fired. If they cheat, they may be caught and go to jail.

Corporations can also choose to act ethically - and, according to a recent Freakonomics podcast, actually benefit from that by attracting better employees :)

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Re:Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Con... by blindwatchmaker on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @01:29PM (#17357518)
Meanwhile in the real world, many corporations get away with doing all these things, abusing labour, regulatory capture and the people running them get rich as Croesus doing it.
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Re:Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Con... by jgaa on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @03:14PM (#17358725)
Yes. And often with support from the Government.

In USA, corruption is regulated by law... Politics is all about getting financial support and basically selling laws and policies to the highest bidder.

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Re:Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Con... by throwaway37585 on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @11:26PM (#17361872)
Meanwhile in the real world, many governments get away with doing all these things, and much worse, and more frequently, and they have armies and police.
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Re:Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Con... by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday June 22, 2018 @04:56AM (#17372521)
> Corporations are accountable.

To shareholders, who are motivated by profit. Accountability is worse than useless if it holds you to account for the wrong things.

Governments are accountable to their populations, at least in democracies.

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