Yeah, I read that on my fridge this morning.
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Corporation: Do evil shit to achieve optimum profit, usually in 100s of millions of extra profit. Laws: Yeah this'll cost you 10 million.
I'm sure there's a name for this but I'm calling it Litigation Offset Loss. So long as the punitive cost is outweighed by the profit gained there is no incentive to act ethically. The only thing worse is corporate self regulation.
Let me introduce you to your new best friend: regulatory capture. This gives you the worst of all: low cost of doing business with high deregulation similar to self-regulation but with the ability to point to the regulatory body for any high profile issues
I'm just saying, americans could solve a lot of problems with a guillotine...
I always heard its "the cost of doing business".
It's called "The government wets it's beak."
The MAGA government doesn't mind if you fleece the rubes, that's what they're there for, but if you are particularly successful, you have to make sure the government gets its taste.
Stephen Burke out here like:
Executives should go to prison for spying on people in their homes.
Stalking charges, and restraining orders is the bare minimum here
That would be lovely to see implemented.
Samsung execs unable to go withing 100m radius of any random chap who might have bought a Samsung TV in the past 10 years.
Point of clarification -- this thread is about an LG lawsuit.
Samsung is allegedly doing similar heinous shit, so I get why the company and its execs would come to mind.
In my defence, I had put them in the same bucket in my brain.
Although I tend to put all of them in the same bucket given enough time, including the company I am working for...
My simple response to a net connected device is to drop them a mail asking whether the appliance will work its whole life without requiring an internet connected activation and if I have either no response, or some "we care for customer" bs, then I just don't buy.
The underside of a rock sometimes feels much better.
"Alleged"
How obvious does it need to be?
It's alleged because they haven't been convicted of a crime. That they did it is not in question, what's in question is what crime (if any) will they be convicted of. Could be this or something else or nothing.
Ahh fair enough, I just thought alleged meant that it wasn't 100% clear that they did it or not.
LG lawyers will definitely try to argue that they didn't do what they did
because of course they will
I worry about these screens being in doctors offices and hospitals without their knowledge is transcribing all this info they should not be.
Good point.
They should be taken off the shelves entirely until they've proven they fixed it. This should hurt them good enough to let others break out a sweat and fix theirs too. Because no way is Samsung and all the others not doing the same.
You got me wondering how that works. The retailers have already paid, so that wouldn't hurt them immediately. Of course further orders would be shut off instantly.
Would the government order LG to buy back units already sold or is the retailer shit out of luck?
Retailers should immediately get their money back in an instance like this. I have no love for the retailers, but it would at least hurt the manufacturer.
You can bet the retailers would sue them. And not occupying shelves cost them a lot of money. What's in stock right now isn't what's sold in a year. Yes, it would suck for the retailers, but it would SUUUUCK for LG.
Of course it is this was known years ago but hard to search now as there are a ton of stuff about it now.
The difference is evidence
If there's a class action I'm joining
Same. I want my $2 check.
Thankfully I never connected my C1 to wifi, but knowing that it'll try to silently connect to an open network, IDK how effective that is. I'm seriously considering opening the thing and physically disabling the wifi chip.
That's what I plan to do, I bought 3 of these fucking things 😭
About fucking time!
'alleged'
"We own the glass"
Me: what an odd thing to say
Not so easy when a different countries wiretapping laws vary from the United States wire tapping laws. Bwhahahaha.
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