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> You see USA? This is how it's done.

You mean like Oliver Schmidt, the VW exec that the USA sentenced to 7 years in federal prison all the way back in 2017 for his part in this scandal? Who was then sent back to Germany in the middle of his sentence and pretty much immediately released on parole by German authorities?

But sure, USA bad or whatever.

So who got put into prison at Jeep, RAM and Dodge (Cummins, FCA)?

You mean an engineer and from a non-US company?

No I mean an executive (he was running VW’s emissions office in Michigan for 5 years at the time he was arrested and was living in the US), and from the same company and scandal this post is about, convicted by the US 7 years before these recent German convictions.

It’s information that is directly relevant the comment I replied to that’s implying that Germany/EU are doing something that the US isn’t based on this specific case.

Right, but the US isn't afraid of suing executives and companies from countries it sees as competitors.

US companies and executives on the other hand ...

Oh wow, you found an example. Bravo!

What did Zuckerberg do?

Maybe he did do something, but hearing "Boo Fuckerberg!" over and over again doesn't imply he's guilty of anything. It's similar to hearing "it's the Jooos" a bajillion effing times and then believing it without asking for any substance.

Have a look at my favorite submissions and search for Facebook.

And more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33105804

Zuckerberg profits by replacing normal human social interaction with ad-infested parasitic addictive pseudo-socialization that drives a sobering % of the population to worse mental states

Unfortunately, a immoral as that sounds, it's not illegal.

True. It would benefit society to come up with a new framework of thinking about widespread forces on society enabled by tech. It’s not something we’ve needed to deal with in the past. And it’s clear that so much harm can be done.

Did he break any laws?

If being a greedy parasocial sociopathic addiction designer put you in prison, every single FAANG executive would be jailed without trial and the American economy would collapse within 24 hours.

Suffice to say, we hold the bar for criminality a bit higher than that.

You're right, by using Zuckerberg as an example of a CEO that probably has some culpability (in my opinion), I've accidentally sounded like the "billionaires bad" memers. My bad.

USA imprisons more corrupt executives than Europe does.

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