• Alphane Moon@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    A16Z should be shut down and all their mid to senior level employees should be required to pick between real community service work (de-mining, live-in janitor at a hospice service, custodian at an infectious disease hospital) for 20 years or doing 40 in jail. Full asset seizure in both cases.

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      10 months ago

      The thing is, what they’re doing isn’t technically criminal. It just violates the terms of use of most social media sites and apps.

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        10 months ago

        Their crypto pyramids schemes and pump and dumps were also technically legal in the US (I am assuming). And yet it is impossible for a pyramid scheme to work, can any US lawyer or judge show how a pyramid is viable? Of course not, because they are scams.

        You have “technically legal” schemes in other countries too. If there is a desire to address criminality a way can be found.

        If you want to achieve something, coming up with excuses around why it is not possible rarely bring results.

  • General_Effort@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Maybe it’s time to have a little think about that word, “influencer”, and how that is a job with which people make money.