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Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees by arp242 on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @08:51PM (#26009666)
It's not like corporations really have a better track record. Quite a few of the colonisation efforts were done by corporations or under private management (not "nations"). Corporations hid and obscured facts about asbestos, smoking, climate change, etc. for decades. Various corporations are not exactly well known for their excellent treatment of people in various less well-off regions (Shell in Nigeria, Dole in South-Africa, etc.), abuse of monopoly positions has a long history, and when corporations really screw things up it's up to the nations to provide some sort of relief (1930s, 2008, housing crisis in various countries).

"Illegal not to subscribe to the state TV channel" seem like small fries.

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Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees by logicchains on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @09:27PM (#26009860)
>It's not like corporations really have a better track record.

The governments of Russia, Germany and China killed over a hundred million of their own people last century, no corporation comes anything near that.

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Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees by tibbetts on Saturday February 06, 2021 @07:51AM (#26046189)
The capitalist colonization of North America, complete with genocide and chattel slavery, deserves at least honorable mention. Also the East India Company, and the Irish famines orchestrated by British landowners, and many more.

Just because the companies doing the murder are more numerous and regularly go out of business, doesn’t mean that capitalism’s hands are free of blood.

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Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees by AlexandrB on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @11:53PM (#26010723)
Many of those governments had help. It's not the Nazis killed millions with their bare hands.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben#Zyklon_B

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