Corporations are not sentient entities.
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Corporations are not sentient entities. They are contracts. They do not "do" things. They do not make decisions. Executives do.
When corporate activity breaks a law or harms people, it means the executives decided to do that.
When a corporation has been fined for something, what you are witnessing is the executives being let off the hook for what they did. Perhaps the prosecutor/regulator wants to keep get big money from corporations after leaving government.
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@dcjohnson Also not sentient entities: countries. "France wants this," "Germany wants that," "the United States said..." No they didn't. There are plenty of people in those places who aren't on board with whatever is being discussed.
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@scott @dcjohnson At least a majority of participating citizens of those countries chose their representatives. No Meta employees elected Zuckerberg.
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@timjclevenger @scott @dcjohnson Feels almost like an insult to call them "representatives" these days. They ain't doing shit for the people. In the best case they're merely managing the environment for an opportunistic economy to exist in, in the worst case they're outright company assets or utter (conspiracy) nutjobs.
Of course an econom full of self-contained little dictatorships like Meta doesn't help.
