Molly Whitebinance going with the classic "we were just moving fast and breaking things!" defense
via https://nytimes.com/2023/04/26/technology/binance-crypto-crackdown.html
[on trial for smashing up a store]
your honor, i was just seeing myself as a tech company. i break things.
your honor, i was just seeing myself as a tech company. i break things.
HelgeBad Advice: That's a great way for the state to pay for your psychiatric care.
Of course, psychiatric care for tech companies should be invented.
Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 👽@molly0xfff Smash up one store, you're a hoodlum. Smash up 100 stores, you're a disruptor!
Cameron Pfiffer@molly0xfff You missed the part about moving fast, can't let the cops catch you
tarper24@cameron @molly0xfff
I feel it's less about getting caught and more about breaking many things so fast before a "user" even reports one of them
I feel it's less about getting caught and more about breaking many things so fast before a "user" even reports one of them
demi7en 🎗🇪🇺On a totally tangential note, when #russians smash up a store, or a (currently) neighbouring country, they follow the Pottery Barn Doctrine: "You break it, you own it".
Or at least they die trying.
E.G. Phillips@molly0xfff Just be sure you are doing it quickly
colen@molly0xfff ah, your honor, my client did not “run from the police”, they were merely “moving fast”
Brian@molly0xfff move fast and break things. Or listen to the talk #zuckerberg gave at #Harvard #CS50 class years ago where he said in #tech it’s better to ask forgiveness than to ask permission.
Sage Griffin 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈@molly0xfff Move fast and break laws
Andrew F@molly0xfff Bulls exit china shops, cite "hostile regulatory environment".
Janet Vertesi@molly0xfff and move fast!!
INPC@molly0xfff move fast and break the law?
@mxtthxw @molly0xfff Well, the law is a thing
Allan Chow@duckswithpants @mxtthxw @molly0xfff Uber and airbnb are your classic examples of just operating against regulations until getting big enough to get regulation based in their favor
Andrew BoostsWithWildAbandon@molly0xfff “Your Honor, plenty of other murders have also killed people. The defense rests”
@molly0xfff everyone's done it. It's totally cool.
ted byfield@molly0xfff I see that more as a belt-and-suspenders approach because it also includes "sees itself as a tech company."
kjaerulv@molly0xfff product-responsibility - a word tech just dont know.....
Steve Torrente@molly0xfff We need an Elliot Ness of moving more prudently and protecting things.
Jordan Roher
kira :3@molly0xfff the classic "we imagined ourselves not being liable and liked that better" defense
Audsbot@molly0xfff Honestly, this "but everyone else in crypto does it too!" defense feels like a very validating juxtaposition against Gensler's recent statements of "the entire industry is willfully noncompliant."
timmy0x.eth@molly0xfff Nobodys defending Binance
Doctor LURK@molly0xfff There isn't a mom alive who'd let "Everybody else is doing it" fly as an excuse. Seems like Binance might need a stern but caring mother figure to guide it out of the shadows!
Tröglödÿtmaybe they think sonic the hedgehog is a documentary about how stealing fast makes it ok
#ProfitsOverPeople reckless endangerment
McNulla@molly0xfff
The difference between whoopsy and jail is regulations. Every time somebody says we need to get rid of regulations to allow for innovation, I repeat that. If you are jacking people over and not held accountable, has innovation been useful? No.
The difference between whoopsy and jail is regulations. Every time somebody says we need to get rid of regulations to allow for innovation, I repeat that. If you are jacking people over and not held accountable, has innovation been useful? No.