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Re:The scientists hired by big oil who predicted the climate... by refurb on Friday July 02, 2021 @10:27AM (#27711944)
When will tech’s reckoning come? Social media’s negative influence and incitement of violence? When we will start throwing engineers in prison who built these products knowing what they do?
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Re:The scientists hired by big oil who predicted the climate... by minikites on Friday July 02, 2021 @10:32AM (#27712014)
Hopefully soon, but I'm not optimistic about that group ever facing consequences either.
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Re:The scientists hired by big oil who predicted the climate... by epistasis on Friday July 02, 2021 @10:52AM (#27712268)
Tech is bad, but it gets held to a far higher standard than fossil fuel companies. It doesn't take much digging to find far worse direct human death from fossil fuel companies, instead of the second-degree human death from social networks.
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Re:The scientists hired by big oil who predicted the climate... by fallingknife on Friday July 02, 2021 @11:01AM (#27712390)
Probably sometime after the printing press reckoning comes. Because it facilitated the same thing and is equally dumb to blame for how people use it.
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