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Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by alistairSH on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @03:10PM (#45673735)
"Viewing corporations as amoral bots..."

How else should we view them? Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, probably a duck.

Nobody justified the behavior, only stated that corporations have proven over time to generally seek profits over all else. They provide legal cover to bad-faith actions. That wasn't the original intention, but it is absolutely the current state of the world.

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Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by joquarky on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @03:55PM (#45674310)
Publically traded companies are inherently aligned with the traits of psychopathy.
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Re:Internet's Biggest Annoyance: Cookie Laws Should Target B... by wat10000 on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @05:22PM (#45675317)
They are exactly the Paperclip Maximizer thought experiment, except it's dollars (or euros or whatever) instead of paperclips.
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