Comment on Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash
unphazed@lemmy.world 2 months agoI’d raise you in that. Companies are people now. If companies break laws, they should be held accountable personally. Even Club Fed would be misery for 14 years on a murder rap.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’d argue the entire C-suite should be legally responsible for anything the company does.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
The CEO in particular IMO, unless it’s financial (CFO) or tech (CTO, CIO).
However, it’s already the CEO’s job to take the heat in public so the board doesn’t have to.
Instead, hold everyone who holds a stake responsible, down to everyone with a 401k with 3 shares in the company for major violations.
See how quickly the shareholders vote to have better transparency.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
While an attractive pitch, remember that what’s going to fuck over the working class is the laws intended to attack the assholes at the top. Which group do you think will have the means to defend themselves in court, has the power to make legislative moves, and would benefit from having another tool to fuck their slaves with?
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Class action criminal suits then.
Prosecute everyone who owns even a single share in the company and if the working class guy goes to jail, so does the wealthy guy, no exceptions. But by share of ownership so whoever owns most, gets the most jailtime.
Offshore shareholders can just get all their assets in the country seized.
Jarix@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And those are actions are what really needs to be curtailed.
Personally I think all lawyer fees should be paid by an entirely new (corporate) tax unless you are a small business with revenue less than a reasonable amount (absolutely not more than 100000 per employee and probably not even that much)