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If 43 million violations of the law aren't enough to shut something down, what is?
Fuck if I know. We can revoke a corporate charter through an act of Congress for any or no reason, we have trust busting laws that allow courts to split a company, individual states can decide to restrict or kick out a company...
We have mechanisms to do these things, but we don't really have a system of corporate criminal punishment. It's one of those problems of using an early version of democracy... Courts can fine and impose sanctions, they can prosecute individuals for their part, but as time went on instead of legislating a system of corporate punishment it's just been left to case law
Which doesn't work out well, because corporations have grown to the point they can dump more way money into legal defense than the courts can put into prosecution
So the answer to your question is basically that it doesn't matter how much they violate the law, they're to big and too powerful for the courts to handle them with the tools available
Thanks for the thoughtful answer, but that's all pretty depressing.
Yuuup. There's people overseas always demanding Americans take back control and stop the madness...
It's like, my brother, you have no idea what you're asking. We have so much to fix. We don't even have the mechanisms to fix the foundational problems yet. We are working on it, all of it, while also fighting like hell to avoid letting tens of millions die for easily preventable reasons
And the world's most powerful interests are fighting every single little step of the way
So, sorry to depresses you, but I do appreciate the empathy
As someone who's fight left them a long time ago, and it's not like I had much to begin with, I don't really blame people in America for not fighting more. Lord knows I probably wouldn't be.Those cruel fucks are just so organised, and have so much energy.