The “move fast, break laws, reap profits, socialize losses” strategy.
Fuck em. Fuck em all with a fork in the eye.
Better to pay the small fine, than ask permission.
Fuck the techbros, fuck AI, fuck data centers, fuck billionaires.
Gross “We did it knowing nobody was going to prosecute us because Trump and that’s what bribes are for” reasons.
Wasn’t their slogan, “Be as evil as possible” ?
When the fines aren’t big enough, they’re just the cost of doing business.
Penalties for fuckery like this should be at GDPR levels, meaning a percentage of global turnover of the parent company.
that’s the entire point of fines, to internalize external costs.
If it’s still profitable after full enforcement of fines then either the fines were not correctly set or the buisness model is a net positive.
Ecodefense is a pretty good and relevant light read!
Add it to KilledByGoogle.com
The things that truly “slipped their leash” recently are the fucking tech companies.
They need a good humbling, and their own hubris will be the thing to do it.
Yeah, it’s negligence. They gambled on any paltry fine being worth it, and still being allowed o proceed.
Google’s green image looks increasingly like a marketing layer over an industrial land grab. A company worth trillions wants ever more land, power and water for AI, and now it’s accused of clearing Finnish forest before environmental assessments were complete.
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If there’s one thing big business exceeds at, it’s killing life.
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Amazing how no one here opened and read the link but still felt they have to comment a wall of angry dogma.
I’ve read the article and I don’t really understand your comment. Could you elaborate?
Did you read the other comments here?
