divergent21

Personally I am not a fan of companies being moral arbiters, or company's reputation and such be the organizing axis around which we decide whether a person has the right to a livelihood, companies after all are not people. Though Jensen is insulated from economic security concerns, for any other "normal" person, the coercive power of a corporate with it's army of lawyers can effectively ruin a person's life.

Whether one deserves such ruination is a moral matter, and everyone is entitled to their own judgement, but it seems wrong to concentrate such power in a private for-profit entity. The entire basis of anti-fascist doctrine is infringement of individual liberties and modern societies, while mostly conditioned to be against government coercion are remarkably comfortable with corporate coercion, dressed up in the pretty language of compliance and organizational reputation.

The thing is an organization is not just a place where you work; it is a provider of economic security, livelihood, and dignity. This concentrates extraordinary power in your place of employment; you are to clock in 5 days a week for at least 8 hours a week; and then work in a highly locked down corporate machine, which you are not allowed to customize even though this is where you will spend the majority of your week in, and one has to ask the question to what extent a company owns your life.

I think that we must also identify the cultural contradiction here; where Hollywood and the like in a sense glorify promiscuity and depict wealth as flaunted with assets and women, as a cultural ideal, and then turn around and hound creatures who are products of such a culture.

Of course, in this case it is far more likely that Jensen was involved with some national security incident.