Lfgss shutting down 16th March 2025 (day before Online Safety Act is enforced)

Re:Lfgss shutting down 16th March 2025 (day before Online Sa... by wat10000 on Monday December 16, 2024 @08:39PM (#42437503)

I wonder what the world would be like if we took corporate personhood to its logical conclusion and applied the same punishments to corporations as we apply to people.

You can’t really put a corporation in jail, but you could cut it off from the world in the same way that a person in jail is cut off. Suspend the business for the duration of the sentence. Steal a few thousand bucks? Get shut down for six months, or whatever that sentence would be.

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Re:Lfgss shutting down 16th March 2025 (day before Online Sa... by Aerroon on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @12:23AM (#42438590)

>You can’t really put a corporation in jail, but you could cut it off from the world in the same way that a person in jail is cut off.

I have imagined a sci-fi skit where James works at CorpCo, a company that was caught doing something illegal and sentences to prison. As punishment James goes to work by reporting in at a prison at 8 am. He sits in his cell until his 'work day' is over and it's released at 5 pm to go home. It's boring, but hey, it pays well.

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Re:Lfgss shutting down 16th March 2025 (day before Online Sa... by thanksgiving on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @04:04AM (#42439674)

I think you can put the CEO and board in prison though.

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Re:Lfgss shutting down 16th March 2025 (day before Online Sa... by nonrandomstring on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @04:16AM (#42439745)

Corporate death penalty [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_dissolution

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