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Re:Facebook Expects to Be Fined Up to $5B by FTC Over Privac... by jcims on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @07:34PM (#19743575)
Eh, a capitalist system is going to reflect the moral framework of the participants. The participant here is the stock market, and its moral framework is based on economic growth and profit for shareholders. In that regard this was a good outcome and, as a result, is rewarded.
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Re:Facebook Expects to Be Fined Up to $5B by FTC Over Privac... by asutekku on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @07:50PM (#19743670)
Which means it has no morality no matter how you try to twist it.
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Re:Facebook Expects to Be Fined Up to $5B by FTC Over Privac... by jcims on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @09:14PM (#19744099)
Sure, no intrinsic morality...more of a passthrough.
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Re:Facebook Expects to Be Fined Up to $5B by FTC Over Privac... by trophycase on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @11:48PM (#19744811)
I try to think of it more as utterly sociopathic (in more or less the strict medical definition of the term), and things seem to really make a lot of sense under that framework.
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