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>These intrusions included manipulating allergen information in restaurant menus to indicate that food items were safe for customers with certain allergies, when they were not. Scheuer also altered menu information related to wine regions to reflect locations of recent mass shootings. Additionally, Scheuer launched denial-of-service attacks designed to lock certain company employees out of their accounts.

Endangering third parties in an effort to take revenge on your former employer is sociopath territory.

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He wasn’t just endangering them; he was weaponizing them against Disney. His goal was for their deaths to become lawsuits and PR crises.

yea, to be honest guy deserves much more than 3 yrs.

There are ways to kill a corporation without the need to use the same playbook as corporations (using others as pawns to get a point across).

So it is okay to use people as pawns if you are a corporation?

I can see where you may get that idea, but I believe the point was supposed to be: just because it is done, it doesn't mean you can do it too. And that also doesn't mean it's ok for corporations to do it, they just have an easier time than the common person because our society runs and money and they have (much!) more of it.

Corporations are cybernetic entities devoid of human qualities.

what do you think cybernetic means?

people have been misusing the term cybernetic for a while now, I've noticed...

what do you think cybernetic means?

people have been misusing the term cybernetic for a while now, I've noticed...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics

Despite the word "cyber", it doesn't refer to brain implants or computers.

Cybernetic refers to systems of communication and automated control, which would describe the purpose of a corp in a broad sense, no?

The Dan Davies book “The Accountability Machine” [0] makes the link between corps and cybernetics through early business author/consultants like Stafford Beer [1].

0. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/U/bo252799...

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...

In this context, "cybernetic" refers to the systems of control, communication, and feedback that govern corporations.

Corporations function as systems designed for efficiency and goal achievement, often prioritizing these over human qualities like empathy or creativity.

> Endangering third parties in an effort to take revenge on your former employer is sociopath territory.

I don't think that really does. I think it's common human behavior to not think about the third parties you're actually endangering and only focusing on who you're trying to hurt.

We don't like to think of ourselves that way but it's relatively easy to push buttons on a human and get them to do things we would regard as "sociopathic" with out the person themselves being a sociopath. See On Killing by Dave Grossman.

> not think about the third parties you're actually endangering and only focusing on who you're trying to hurt

Right. That’s sociopathic hate. Note that OP didn’t say psychopathic, which is something one is born with.

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