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The Adblockalypse is coming (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by Spudwart to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Dodge v. Ford is arguably the court case that proves all capitalist owned companies are legally required to not do the right thing. If Google was worker owned they would be a lot better.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Can you explain? Not familiar with this case

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

Essentially, the Supreme Court ruled that Henry Ford had to operate the company in the best interests of its shareholders, not his employees. It’s an awful ruling by the Supreme Court that has never been revisited.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's one of a sequence of Supreme Court decisions (starting with Dartmouth College v Woodward and culminating most recently with Citizens United) that have led us down this path of corporate dystopia. For the full background, read this:

https://reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate-accountability-history-corporations-us/