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Re:States bring action against Google under federal and stat... by edgyquant on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @05:59PM (#25449951)
That is beyond hyperbole. These are people implementing a caching feature not individuals leading human being into death camps. A false equivalency seldom matched.
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Re:States bring action against Google under federal and stat... by pmoriarty on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @08:46PM (#25451324)
The crimes are not equivalent, but the "I was just following orders" excuse is just as bogus in both cases.

If you believe that people are responsible for their actions, and they have a choice of what to do, then just because someone gives them an order doesn't mean they have to follow it. They could refuse. If they accept they are then responsible for their own decision and its consequences.

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Re:States bring action against Google under federal and stat... by redisman on Thursday December 17, 2020 @04:15PM (#25460533)
What if you didn't know the ultimate goal of the delay feature you implemented? The ticket could have been fairly generic/abstract.
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Re:States bring action against Google under federal and stat... by salawat on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @07:45PM (#25450875)
>I was only following orders.

It is not an excuse. What they did sets the nature of the penalty which may or may not even come out to being a substantial punishment. That they were told to do it, and knew it was wrong, but did it anyway merely fails to absolve them of guilt.

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