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To be clear: I support free speech and oppose censorship by government. I don't know how or why one would want to enforce these principles on businesses--let alone how it would not…

Kindly, I don't think that is the important question because that's not how legal duty works. Basically, there are always legal duties, some of which are codified & some of which a…

No, I'm not arguing for "safe spaces" here at all. Nor am I suggesting students shouldn't "have to hear viewpoints they disagree with." I am arguing that, along with legal duties, …

I was trying to leave law aside:) But, yes, Universities also have legal duties to their students. However, these vary significantly based on too many different factors to speak us…

Successful graduates become alumni who make donations. To be clear, no one is suggesting that Universities should be "policing every dispute." I am stating that Universities can an…

Are you really confused? Leaving the law & federal funding requirements aside, Universities seek to have successful graduates & thus it is in their best interest to provide an envi…

Thanks for saying this. Threads like this baffle me, make me sad and wonder if its time to just stop visiting this site. If you don’t mind being bullied, harassed, or threatened, t…

As soon as a senior executive becomes aware of any kind of illegal activity, malfeasance or behavior for which the company could be held liable, it becomes their responsibility. Wh…

How people feel is irrelevant; but based on federal law, the US Constitution, whatever local laws there may be & decades of judicial precedent, what you describe would expose any U…

What gives you the impression that these specific people are bright? Or were never forced to conform? This is not how socially inept high school nerds behave; its how VC funded fra…

If you work in the US, you are describing what lawyers will call a 'hostile workplace' when your employers are, based on your description alone, successfully sued for discriminatio…

Sure, Sam Altman is impressive, but seems like you are underplaying Brown's actual experience--and I am not sure why it'd comparable anyway? As the son of a beloved governor, Brown…

Wow. I’m so confused by this. Sure, it makes sense that Altman would seek advice from Willie L. Brown Jr.—but why would Altman allow Brown to announce this in his newspaper column?…

No VC would invest in this. Beyond it not being monetizable, this is a bad idea for a variety of reasons, but nonetheless, such apps do actually already exist! These apps are point…

Binding information requests are court orders, which can, as you note, be appealed in court. I am unaware of any instance where a company has lost an appeal in court & refused to t…

Yes, that's what I'm saying? Hmmm. I'll try but maybe we are misunderstanding each other, because this doesn't seem debatable? There are rules that define what kind of defenses, mi…

I just meant I wouldn't respond to a comment about how actually corporations totally have state of minds and intentions. Sure, one could write laws where they did (just like you co…

I understand what you are asking & why you think there is an easy answer that I'm not giving you, but unfortunately, there isn't one. There's no easy explanation that wouldn't requ…

You seem to be kind of conflating ethics & civil disobedience? And expanding civil disobedience to include, for example, refusing to work assigned to you? The government does not r…

Yes, Uber was using Greyball in cities where it was not operating legally, Portland amongst them. Uber publicly admitted they built it, that they were still using it, tried to defe…

This looks like a simple & potentially enlightening question, but, its more complicated than it appears & examples may only be more confusing:) Companies (tech & other) are sued li…

I don't know what you mean by legal definitions of evasion and obstruction. Legal definitions literally vary by jurisdiction, so how one jurisdiction defines a crime is legally dif…

I did not say that ideology does not matter. I asked why it should be relevant to the definition of a crime or whether or not it ought to be punished. (my words could've been tight…

a business is a business and a person is a person. there are no "not quite a person entities" (those are businesses) and there are no technicalities here that transform an economic…

I am not sure why you think that companies do or should engage in civil disobedience. When companies want to change laws, they lobby the government, in part because telling one's e…