• @qyron@lemmy.pt
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    02 years ago

    Could you be so kind and explain how would you ensure those who would be losing their livelyhoods survive? And their families?

    We tend to peg a face to a company and demonize the whole from one person, like the tweeter debacle and that hair enhanced loon that bought it out of a whim, motivated by spite.

    How many have lost their jobs already and how many more would lose them if the company was to be dissolved for punishment in their spread of false information (thus, aiding and abetting) that have led to the terrible losses and even worst for many?

    Or perhaps Facebook, with their assistance with covering and gagging the genocide in Myanmar?

    This doesn’t mean I disagree with severely punishing these entities. Fine them in millions and billions, force them to break into competing entities, severely regulate and control their actions. But kill a company because, and in this particular case for BMW, they could cooperate or cease to exist, perhaps in horrendous ways?

    That would make the punishment as bad or worst than the crime.

    • @triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml
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      32 years ago

      I don’t agree with your dichotomy, but ignoring that for a second, saying “the punishment as bad or worse than the crime” makes it sound like you think someone losing their job is “as bad or worse” than genocide - maybe reconsider

      • @Wakmrow@lemmy.world
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        12 years ago

        Let’s be clear here too. There was real dissent in Germany and the Nazis shipped those who fought back to camps first. These people just doing their jobs made their choice.