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Re:Khasho who? One year after gruesome murder, investors emb... by aeturnum on Thursday October 03, 2019 @04:56PM (#21152105)
Do you know of any examples of a particular business insisting an authoritarian regime implement pro-democratic changes before opening a business venture?
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Re:Khasho who? One year after gruesome murder, investors emb... by dcolkitt on Thursday October 03, 2019 @05:22PM (#21152369)
Even just drawing from American history, big business interests lobbied extremely hard for desegregation and civil rights in the 1950s and 1960s. Even today in America, big business is one of the most powerful interests in favor of LGBT-rights[1].

Another example was big business' demands for reform in the apartheid regime of South Africa[2].

[1]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-19/the-u-s-c... [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sullivan_principles

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