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Re:Seagate hit with $300M penalty for selling sanctioned sto... by godzillabrennus on Thursday April 20, 2023 @10:32AM (#35640616)
American justice is about extracting money from a corporate entity not personal accountability.
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Re:Seagate hit with $300M penalty for selling sanctioned sto... by tough on Thursday April 20, 2023 @11:43AM (#35641819)
As long as money flows freely, the show must go on
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Re:Seagate hit with $300M penalty for selling sanctioned sto... by ROTMetro on Thursday April 20, 2023 @12:49PM (#35642743)
No, the concept of having corporations is 100% about this since their creation. If you look into the history of corporations it's kind of the point. Not more 'you and your family will be completely ruined and destroyed' but instead 'you can lose your business' sparked a revolutionary change in business the enabled the modern world and allowed people to undertake huge products that no sane person would take a risk on if they assumed responsibility for.
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Re:Seagate hit with $300M penalty for selling sanctioned sto... by anonymouskimmer on Thursday April 20, 2023 @12:59PM (#35642887)
All of that is financial.

Criminal violations are not supposed to be protected by the corporate veil.

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Re:Seagate hit with $300M penalty for selling sanctioned sto... by ROTMetro on Thursday April 20, 2023 @03:50PM (#35645330)
And if management committed crimes they are punished. I even spent multiple years in the feds with some of those guys.
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Re:Seagate hit with $300M penalty for selling sanctioned sto... by filoleg on Thursday April 20, 2023 @04:07PM (#35645553)
> Criminal violations are not supposed to be protected by the corporate veil.

And they aren't, at least in the US. Just look at Martin Shkreli actually serving 5 years in prison for securities fraud and personally repaying ~$70mil.

P.S. none of this is related to the Daraprim controversy btw. Thought to mention because I have been seeing that misconception quite a bit online.

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Re:Seagate hit with $300M penalty for selling sanctioned sto... by scrubs on Sunday April 23, 2023 @01:24AM (#35673538)
Correct! Now, only if we behaved like that was true.
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Re:Seagate hit with $300M penalty for selling sanctioned sto... by CircleSpokes on Thursday April 20, 2023 @01:21PM (#35643194)
Except people get arrested for sanction busting somewhat frequently..
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