RE: https://toot.cat/@EveHasWords/116041692410497298

There’s a lot of shit that persists in the west primarily because our governments refuse to hold companies fully liable for their actions. A company with as many serious data breaches as #TMobile has had should be out of business and, in a world where we still have prisons and money, the executives’ money should have been seized and they should be imprisoned.

At least ten people died and many others sickened because of #BoarsHead but, as far as I know, there have only been lawsuits and “oversight.” No charges of murder or negligent homicide.

I doubt we’ll ever know the full scope of #ThreeM ‘s (3M, hashtags starting with numbers don’t work on Mastodon) environmental crimes. It’s reasonable to assume their evils vastly outweigh my other examples combined.

#Discord should have felt like they were shitting their own shorts when the breach was unveiled. Instead, they’ve been emboldened to take bigger risks with more peoples’ data.

We can’t boycott our way out of these problems. We can work for a world where the wealthy and powerful either don’t exist or have meaningful consequences for their actions.

#Capitalism

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