reddig33@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoThe FTC isn’t too happy with Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard layoffswww.polygon.comexternal-linkmessage-square110fedilinkarrow-up1538arrow-down19 cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldghazi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
arrow-up1529arrow-down1external-linkThe FTC isn’t too happy with Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard layoffswww.polygon.comreddig33@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square110fedilink cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldghazi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
minus-squaremagnetosphere@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up77·9 months ago Microsoft reneged on promises it made in court… If those promises aren’t legally binding, then why take them into account in the first place?
minus-squareAsafum@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·edit-29 months agoI will literally never understand why the word of a corporation has any weight if it isn’t bound by law. You need to force corporations to act if it’s against their own interests.
minus-squarejkrtn@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·9 months agoIt is because the billionaires write the laws through ALEC. The only part of the system which isn’t working as intended is that they had to make any promises in the first place.
If those promises aren’t legally binding, then why take them into account in the first place?
I will literally never understand why the word of a corporation has any weight if it isn’t bound by law.
You need to force corporations to act if it’s against their own interests.
It is because the billionaires write the laws through ALEC. The only part of the system which isn’t working as intended is that they had to make any promises in the first place.