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Re:Microsoft President: Democracy Is At Stake. Regulate Big ... by anigbrowl on Saturday September 14, 2019 @04:00PM (#20973340)
The top comment referenced a line in the article criticizing both 'engineers and tech titans' and then only addressed the first half with a 'poor me' argument, which seems to have distorted this entire thread.

I'm not a lawyer. I expect if I'm being asked to do something, it's been vetted by our corporate legal team. I should not be expected to know every aspect of criminal and civil law to protect myself from my employer.

That's you. I've quit jobs before because I was not willing to do something that went against my principles. I think it's pretty simple to ask yourself how you'd feel if you were on the opposite end of some questionable corporate action and later found out that you had been deceived or exploited.

Re:Microsoft President: Democracy Is At Stake. Regulate Big ... by jhall1468 on Saturday September 14, 2019 @04:31PM (#20973564)
I made no mention of my personal ethics. I said vetted legally. Rest assured your principles almost certainly do not align exactly with the law. You may do something illegal without the knowledge you have. You may have contributed to some illegal because you weren't privy to the sum of the parts.

Which is exactly why this is such a horrible idea.

Re:Microsoft President: Democracy Is At Stake. Regulate Big ... by anigbrowl on Saturday September 14, 2019 @06:33PM (#20974273)
Yeah but there are a ton of protections for that legal situation, and there's lots of things that are legal but deeply unethical because laws are unjust. This is an primarily an ethical issue.