Re:A Wave of Fear in American Commerce
by CamperBob2 on Friday June 21, 2019 @11:13PM
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How many people did Facebook or Google run over and gun down at Tiananmen Square, again...?
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The East India Trading company and Purdue Pharmaceuticals make for a more fair comparison.
They both killed more than an order of magnitude more people than the Tiananmen Square (and related) massacres.
One actually had a standing army for this purpose. The other is hiring.
Re:A Wave of Fear in American Commerce
by CamperBob2 on Saturday June 22, 2019 @05:34PM
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Those examples aren't entirely invalid, but in one case of one of them (Purdue) they are facing legal jeopardy for their actions including a $270MM settlement in Oklahoma alone. The other company was founded 400 years ago, relied on letters of marque issued by (you guessed it) governments, and is no longer a going concern.
The thing about governments is that they have basically zero accountability to anyone except a better-armed government. We talk a good game here in the US, but it's certainly playing out differently.