• snooggums
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    714 days ago

    ought to be fined by the FTC, or worse

    Fines don’t work, just start throwing people in jail already.

    • @grue
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      254 days ago

      By its nature, the only penalties that can be applied to a corporate entity are fines or revoking its charter. The latter is what I had in mind when I wrote “or worse,” although I suppose piercing the corporate veil and going after the company’s executives personally is certainly an option too!

      • @[email protected]
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        4 days ago

        It’s insane to respect corporations’ rights when we know very well how pointless they are for the public’s interests. We want proper behavior and serious punishments. We don’t want to respect corporate and their rights.

        • @[email protected]
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          23 days ago

          We might also need voting records so we know which members of the board need to be punished for corporate action

          • @[email protected]
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            23 days ago

            And it there’s been a failure to keep voting records, punish the whole board. Be more ruthless to these fucks.

      • @[email protected]
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        23 days ago

        You can pierce the corporate veil. "What lawyer approved it? Who was responsible for putting that message there?”.

        The corporation might not be able to be punished, but the actual people who did the thing can be.

        The corporate veil for legal action only makes sense for a limited number of things that are problematic for the company but no person could really be expected to have directly made the choice.