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Re: Former Netflix executive convicted of receiving bribes from contractors

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Post by catabyte » Fri, Oct 22, 2021, 4:23 PM UTC

whymauri wrote: post #12

>In his own memorandum to the court, requesting that he be sentenced to a year of house arrest, Kail, 49, described himself as a “global power leader, top dev ops influencer and a thought leader.” So very humble of him.

First off, he didn't describe himself that way; his lawyer did. That's pretty standard stuff in a sentencing memorandum. Secondly, have you read the entire 53 page memorandum? I recommend everyone do so before rushing to judgement. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6769891/269/united-stat...

Re: Former Netflix executive convicted of receiving bribes from contractors

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Oct 22, 2021, 6:30 PM UTC

bpodgursky wrote: post #387

lern_too_spel wrote: post #311

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The prosecutors were making a case against Kail. If they make it seem like the startups were complicit or even proposed it, that would hurt their case against Kail. These arrangements were obviously illegal, and it beggars belief to suggest that so many startups were unaware of that.

If complicity weakens the case against Kail, why are you suggesting the startups did something illegal? You can't have it both ways. The complicity is either a crime alongside Kail's crime (and completely independent), or it isn't.

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Re: Former Netflix executive convicted of receiving bribes from contractors

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Post by germandiago » Sat, Oct 23, 2021, 11:22 AM UTC

jollybean wrote: post #405

germandiago wrote: post #397

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Politicians should not have power to rule. There are 1 million ways to benefit indirectly from favors to lobbies, do not be innocent. Sometimes demonstrating corruption is really difficult. You are worried about business that give people improvements or products every day, but you are not worried about regulators that twist stuff to get benefits without producing anything for people and that tax the people that produ…

This comment makes no sense. We elect politicians to oversee government and make laws. Anybody can 'lobby' them, we generally want that, because we want politicians to be informed and responsive. We do have to be careful about undue influence, which is why we have rules for that.

Maybe it is you who wants politicians to regulate.

I want them disappeared as much as possible and that they work giving service to others, not f*cking the very pillars of the benefactors of our society, which are business that produce something useful, by taxing them and imposing obligation after obligation, and, when they are friends, giving them competitive advantage via regulations with excuses to protect this or that, absurd regulations that only have the incentive to exchange favors, making effectively non-viable ideas and business that could succeed and improve all people's lives and remove government handouts.

The people that should govern should be people specialized in the tasks they do, and those tasks vary, in my ideal world, from nothing to security + minimal laws (do not kill, do not harm).

All the rest is giving them reasons to accumulate power that only is misused to polarize people and to give advantages to friends.