Comment by lern_too_spel
6 years ago
> Coca cola sent death squads into South America.
That's an argument against Coca Cola doing business in South America, not against banning an advertising platform in South America.
6 years ago
> Coca cola sent death squads into South America.
That's an argument against Coca Cola doing business in South America, not against banning an advertising platform in South America.
No, it's actually pointing out the statement I quoted is fundamentally wrong. Private corporations can and have done the same things you accused state actors of doing
So it's a difference in degree, not kind. My point stands. I'm far more concerned about an organization that has imprisoned thousands with essentially zero consequences than one that hired some paramilitaries and got in significant legal trouble for it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company
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>Private corporations can and have done the same things you accused state actors of doing
I mean yeah, since those corporations were acting like a quasi-nation state. If you're willing to go back far enough, you could also point to the East India company as evidence of corporate power, although in those cases they pretty much were the state in the areas that they operated. I'm not sure whether you could say the same about corporations today.