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GN spends the first segment of their GN News to responding to Linus's comments, and reveals that Linus mislead people on the Billet compensation. (youtu.be)

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According to Billet themselves, they heard nothing about compensation or payback until about 3 hours after the original GN video went live.. Which Billet hadnt even replied to before Linus made his post saying they've already made the deal on compensation.

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[–] JimmyMcGill 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Using your toxic waste excuse: if it gets the company to stop dumping toxic waste a week sooner then... that is a week less of making three eyed fish and killing kids.

And then they resume the dumping next week, maybe at a different location and long term nothing changes.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Exactly.

Not every story requires input/comment from the subject.

Its not unprofessional or hitjobbing to not get one.

Especially when the subject has a public forum (WAN, Twitter, His own Website, Youtube, etc) where he has explicitly made his statements and stances known.

[–] CosmicCleric -1 points 1 year ago

Then you go after them, again. And again. And again.

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[–] CosmicCleric 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, if you think there was going to be long term change from the article in the first place: Clearly you have never heard of DuPont Chemicals.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/03/business/pfas-chemours-dupont-corteva-settlement/index.html

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[–] CosmicCleric 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

DuPont alone reported 16.65B USD in revenue for 2021. And this is split between three companies.

They get the slap on the wrist and go back to doing whatever until the next slap.

Well if you're expecting a fine to take a corporation out of business, that will never happen. But this is no slap on the wrist either, this is a huge hit to their profits. And if you Google it you'll see there's more of that happening these days (I only included one example).

I'm not saying it's nowhere near perfect, but it's not nowhere near how your expressing your cynical opinions on the matter either.

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[–] CosmicCleric 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because even if they take a hit for FY23? They made massive profits off doing this since FY03. It means absolutely nothing.

Well what do you want? It's not like they can go into a time machine and go back and hit them harder with fines back then.

I'm not arguing that there hasn't been failures in holding these companies accountable in the past. All I'm saying is it seems to be happening now, and continuing into the future.

To say it's useless it's just false, you got to work for the day you're in and in the days to come, you can't do anything anymore for the days that have been.