The criminals ate bread before the heist, better round up all the grain farmers
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bfg9k@lemmy.world 2 months agoBy that logic we should arrest all Car company CEOs for being complicit in crime lol, it’s not exactly his choice what people do with his product
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 2 months ago
LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Next they’ll charge oil executives for damage to the planet, I’m for it.
Hubi@feddit.org 2 months ago
Not really comparable because the illegal content is hosted and distributed through his servers. Which is why most sites are moderated to a degree. This dude basically said “fuck off” whenever takedowns were issued. It’s hardly a surprise that he’s been arrested.
grue@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Illegal content is distributed through snail mail and telephones too, but those are common carriers so they aren’t liable. Why should Telegram be any different?
Sgn@programming.dev 2 months ago
shottymcb@lemm.ee 2 months ago
They can open every piece of mail and read the contents.
wick@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yes
yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 2 months ago
So if I lease a car it’s comparable? Rent a car, commit a crime, boom — rental company is on the hook. Moronic.
Zorque@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The rental company, on the other hand, is more than willing to turn you in to not be considered liable. Which they probably would be if they impeded an investigation.
yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 2 months ago
Riiiight. And If you use a rental car to create a car bomb I guess the rental company CEO should go to straight to jail.
If getting rid of privacy is what you think it takes to be safe and civilized, you are not the latter and you don’t deserve the former.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 months ago
But, have you noticed that after committing a crime, criminals and felons usually escape… using a car?
Hubi@feddit.org 2 months ago
This is more like arresting the getaway driver, not the car manufacturer.
HarriPotero@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Except the getaway driver is just a cabbie who will drive anyone who gets in. He didn’t know he was part of a heist.
Would you hold the CEO of lyft responsible if one of their self-driving cars were used in a heist?
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not sure. I was just bored and was making a funny comment.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
landlords should be prosecuted for crimes commited by criminals in houses they rented out to the tenants.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
If the landlord knows it’s happening and let it happen then yeah, that’s what being complicit is all about
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
how are you meant to know, by impeding on your tenant’s privacy constantly?
Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I mean depending on the crimes, yeah. If a child porn ring runs out of your building and you’re alerted to its continued existence, and the police are asking who lives there and you don’t tell them and keep renting to them? Yeah.
communism@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
People need houses to live. Taking stuff off your own server doesn’t throw someone out onto the streets and leave them to the elements. Come on lol