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According to Billet themselves, they heard nothing about compensation or payback until about 3 hours after the original GN video went live… Which Billet hadnt even replied to before Linus made his post saying they’ve already made the deal on compensation.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      60•1 year ago

      That has got to be the most corrupted take that could be possible taken from that.

      You know what serves the public good? Reporting on it, So people can see what the company is doing, So they don’t get away with turning off the valve for a couple days… So they get held accountable for having the valve at all, and the exposure forcing them to spend their money on cleanup and decontamination, while the public outcry gets so bad that government steps in with regulation, and legislation, and oversight.

      You know what doesnt serve the public good? Letting the corpo hide its shit and get away with everything, because you think theres some insignificant, nonexistent benefit to letting it do so.

      By not letting Linus use his position to try and pressure Steve, by not giving Linus time to get a coverup in place, Linus got outed for lying about the Billet compensation, Further showing the lengths he’ll go to, to lie, double down, and shift blame to anything but himself.

    • @JimmyMcGill
      25•1 year ago

      Using your toxic waste excuse: if it gets the company to stop dumping toxic waste a week sooner then… that is a week less of making three eyed fish and killing kids.

      And then they resume the dumping next week, maybe at a different location and long term nothing changes.

      • @[email protected]OPEnglish
        25•1 year ago

        Exactly.

        Not every story requires input/comment from the subject.

        Its not unprofessional or hitjobbing to not get one.

        Especially when the subject has a public forum (WAN, Twitter, His own Website, Youtube, etc) where he has explicitly made his statements and stances known.

      • Cosmic ClericEnglish
        -1•1 year ago

        Then you go after them, again. And again. And again.

            • Cosmic ClericEnglish
              1•1 year ago

              DuPont alone reported 16.65B USD in revenue for 2021. And this is split between three companies.

              They get the slap on the wrist and go back to doing whatever until the next slap.

              Well if you’re expecting a fine to take a corporation out of business, that will never happen. But this is no slap on the wrist either, this is a huge hit to their profits. And if you Google it you’ll see there’s more of that happening these days (I only included one example).

              I’m not saying it’s nowhere near perfect, but it’s not nowhere near how your expressing your cynical opinions on the matter either.

                • Cosmic ClericEnglish
                  1•1 year ago

                  Because even if they take a hit for FY23? They made massive profits off doing this since FY03. It means absolutely nothing.

                  Well what do you want? It’s not like they can go into a time machine and go back and hit them harder with fines back then.

                  I’m not arguing that there hasn’t been failures in holding these companies accountable in the past. All I’m saying is it seems to be happening now, and continuing into the future.

                  To say it’s useless it’s just false, you got to work for the day you’re in and in the days to come, you can’t do anything anymore for the days that have been.