Re:Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government secu...
by netdevphoenix on Friday February 21, 2025 @12:10PM
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Corporations are people in the legal sense not in any other philosophical way. Just like non-humans proposed for personhood, they are not entities expected to behave ethically. Like a dog, you set rules and apply punishments when they breach it. You don't argue ethics with a dog because they are not relevant to them
Re:Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government secu...
by kennysoona on Friday February 21, 2025 @12:11PM
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> where corporations are considered people,
People always get this wrong. Corporations are not people. They just have certain rights like owning property. Corporate personhood != full personhood.
Re:Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government secu...
by lowbloodsugar on Friday February 21, 2025 @12:13PM
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lol. It literally does. This is a great example. You believe this is an ethical issue. Other shareholders (you are a shareholder, right?) could disagree and now there is a lawsuit. “Complying with national law” seems like an easy win for them.
Being a business does not remove ethical considerations. And I’m an environment where corporations are considered people, it seems reasonable to expect some degree of alignment with normal citizens.
> Apple's goal is to make money. The government is a representation of your will.
The government is increasingly not a representation of the collective will, and is instead captured by those corporations.
I can’t help but feel the “but they exist to make money” line too often ignores the many ways this is not a sufficiently complex explanation of the situation.