Amazon execs destroyed years of evidence before FTC action, agency says::Amazon allegedly destroyed communications, turned controversial programs on and off, and knowingly raised prices for consumers, according to unsealed documents.
When the fuck are they going to stop treating these companies and executives with kid gloves?
Why do they do these things, shred evidence, lie on the stand, and break almost every white collar law there is? Because there are little to no consequences. And if there are it’s for people in the “out” group. New money.
Crack down on all of them. Shredding evidence should be an admission of guilt. Full stop.
When Citizens United gets overturned (i.e. never).
But the second you steal money from them, youll be only trial for your life pretty darn quick.
How optimistic to think you’d make it to trial for your theft.
Split Amazon into retail and web services and then further split them into multiple different companies. Amazon has gotten way too big and stifling competition along the way.
Do the same to Facebook too while we’re at it. Fucking hate speech central.
They (technically) already are. I work for Amazon, but I don’t get paid by “Amazon”. I get paid for the subsidiary I work for.
Splitting is fine, but it’s easily dealt with by megacorps. If anything, if the idea is floated, it’s probably because they’re absolutely fine with it.
If you want to break Amazon apart, do the one thing they hate. Enable their employees to unionize, and empower them to fight the decades-long HR machine that ruins corporate employees lives.
Gotta go further and deeper then that too. There are other, larger and more diverse companies that are hiding in plain site behind the more popular business like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc…
Treat the destruction of evidence as proof of guilt and assume the worst case scenario. Ya know, the thing we do with criminals.
We don’t turn destruction of evidence as proof of guilt with criminals, it’s just a separate crime.
Legally we don’t, but generally, as people… I think most of us look at destruction of evidence as at least evidence of guilt.
It only works with people. Capitalism.
Yeah, I know that. I didn’t say what WILL happen, just what SHOULD
Since when is that proof of guilt? I can see it being it’s own specific crime, but it proves nothing.
Corporate death penalty should be on the table for stuff like this.
Get money out of politics and these problems go away (because they will be dealt with properly).
