Emily 🏳️‍⚧️ (Sad Music Era)Jun 9, 2023

I was trying to think of simple legal changes that would make America better for everyone.

The first one that comes to mind is: "Set corporate fines for ANYTHING to be minimum 150% of the money they profited from their lawbreaking, as assessed independently by the government".

Get rid of the concept as "fines as a cost of doing business" and turn them into actual deterrents.

This comes from Yet Another "Oopsie' from local chemical plants.

Show threadKim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷

@EmilyGB2023 I think that’s a great idea!

The other change I would love to see is the criminalising of “deliberately or recklessly misleading the public”. (‘Recklessly’ to cover cases where the truth is easily ascertained, so that ‘I didn’t know’ is no defence.)

If voters believe credible lies, their votes mean nothing and democracy is dead.

Jun 9, 2023 at 8:23pmWeb