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This is really an outrageous, unethical, disproportionate response to a negative article, what kind of psychos are working at eBay?

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The same ones that work at Salesforce. [1]

(The former CEO was either blind to the activities of his direct reports, condoned their actions, or actively participated in criminal behavior. All are disqualifying offenses.)

[1] https://www.salesforce.com/company/leadership/bios/bio-wenig...

What do you expect from a company that runs a superbowl commercial that attacks space exploration, for no apparent reason or connection with their company?

> what kind of psychos are working at eBay?

People who presumably got rejected by Amazon for being too evil even for them...

I thought they go to Oracle :)

Only if they're lawyers

The same sort that are peppered throughout society. Working at eBay just meant they likely had access to more funds than the folks that stalk people and call the new jobs to harass them or get them fired.

The same as elsewhere. The fact that he is an eBay employee is irrelevant.

Ebay seems like a unique company. I don't know if they still do this but at one point they were using web sockets to port scan customers networks.

I think this kind of psycho is the norm in the upper echelon of government and business.

We shouldn't think it is only eBay that is rotten.

If this was the norm, society would have collapsed long ago

I think the length of time it has taken for our society to collapse is a testament to the quality of civilization we destroyed (are destroying).

What collapse? Information and science is being preserved; trust is so high that we're all willing to accept numbers in a database as being money; kids are being educated now much better than I was.

Why? I sense assumption that decency at the top is required for society to function.

Counterpoints would be (sadly):

a. most of the history is wars.

b. Slavery was a norm for a very very long time.

c. North Korea.

It seems as simplistic to say it's the norm as it is to say it's an isolated case.

Why not just prosecute where there is evidence of wrongdoing.

None of the perpetrators of the 1985 bombing in Philadelphia - committed by police - ever got hauled in front of a court [1]. Abuse of power rarely gets punished if you are high enough in the chain.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing

Richard Helms destroyed documents regarding the CIA and their work in torturing US citizens and died and free man.

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