Google bans Podcast Addict app over non-approved Covid-19 content

Re:Google bans Podcast Addict app over non-approved Covid-19... by SkyBelow on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @09:39AM (#23234746)

There is the solution of taking away power from the government to fix this. You would need to limit the punishment of people to be the same as corporations. For example, if a corporation commits negligence that kills people and gets fined 2% of its income, then the penalty for negligent homicide becomes a 2% yearly income with no jail time.

The problem is that right now the government will jail an individual and fine them many years worth of income but will not punish a corporation even a 1/100th of the penalty. Equalize that can be done by either granting or removing power from the government.

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Re:Google bans Podcast Addict app over non-approved Covid-19... by saagarjha on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @04:34PM (#23239852)

I don't see how that would work, because fining a corporation indirectly fines every employee they need to lay off and can no longer find a job. Of course, we should fine corporations more, but trying to treat a company like a person is just a stupid metaphor in general and extending that will lead you nowhere sane.

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Re:Google bans Podcast Addict app over non-approved Covid-19... by SkyBelow on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @11:01AM (#23247659)

>I don't see how that would work, because fining a corporation indirectly fines every employee they need to lay off and can no longer find a job.

Do we stop putting people in prison if they have a child? Either we have to punish children by depriving them of a parent (potentially putting them into foster care) or we have to allow family status to be a factor in sentencing individuals (institutionalize discrimination on a protected class)?

Currently when we punish someone, little thought is given to secondary victims. I don't see why we would make an exclusion for corporations.

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