Re:When is privacy button not a privacy button? When Google ...
by mrguyorama on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @01:56PM
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>I don't understand how it could be considered just for someone to be punished for making an honest mistake in their testimony.
His job is to run the company and take responsibility for it. If he doesn't know something illegal is going on, he is still at fault for not learning about it
Re:When is privacy button not a privacy button? When Google ...
by reaperman on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @02:44PM
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This flirts with the is/ought fallacy. The way you wrote, it sounds like you’re saying that in our current legal system they can be found “found at fault” in a legal sense.
But I believe what you meant is that under a different/hypothetical legal system, one which you believe to be closer to optimal, they should be found at fault.
> Seems the rich and powerful get given carte blanche to lie and ignore any predictable consequences of their decisions.
They aren't[1]. This doesn't seem to be a case of someone rich and powerful getting away with lying.
[1] They may have the means to fight things in court to reduce their penalty for perjury, but that's not "carte blanche". Rich and powerful people do, in fact, get penalized for lying under oath. Just not 100% of the time.