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Nah, it only works for corporations. Peons still have accountability.

I think about this all the time.

Like if I kill someone of course I go to jail. But if I get some people together, say we're a company, and then kill 100 people, nobody goes to jail. How does that work? What a huge loophole.

Phillips (the company) basically killed people with malfunctioning CPAP machines (which are meant to help against sleep apnea) and no one went to jail. So that's a practical example.

While it sounds funny, it doesn't work like that. We'd be having a real corporate shootouts everyday all over the place :))

I don't think that's true in this case. I've never heard of an individual employee who introduced a bug being legally liable for it.

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