WooMe: TechCrunch40 Finalist, $20 Million In Funding

Re:WooMe: TechCrunch40 Finalist, $20 Million In Funding – An... by watchandwait on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @12:24PM (#2171063)

Regulations are only as ethical as the regulator -- just ask Bernie Madoff's victims how well that worked. Indeed, more regulation leads to a false sense of security, and certainly stifles innovation.

Better to have the market, and market players like TechCrunch, sort out this type of low-level malfeasance.

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Re:WooMe: TechCrunch40 Finalist, $20 Million In Funding – An... by zoomzoom on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @12:54PM (#2171213)

I am definitely not advocating more regulation, only pointing out that laws and ethics are not the same thing. The parent of the above post is the one suggesting to "change that" (implying more regulation) and I am answering that comment.

I agree that this kind of "malfeasance" is not really worth any more attention from regulators.

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Re:WooMe: TechCrunch40 Finalist, $20 Million In Funding – An... by pavel_lishin on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @01:00PM (#2171249)

But then you'd have to have a financial reward system in place that rewards ethical firms.

I don't know how you would do that.

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Re:WooMe: TechCrunch40 Finalist, $20 Million In Funding – An... by dantheman on Thursday February 03, 2011 @08:23AM (#2174606)

It's called refusing to do business with people who are ethically challenged.

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