Comment by tialaramex

> an internet business, on the other hand, would prefer a false negative to a true positive, let alone a false positive.

[Emphasis mine]

This is crucial and it's why the sub-threads imagining suing Google aren't going anywhere. Google will very easily convince a judge that what they're doing is beneficial to the general public, because it is, even though some HN contributors hate it because they'd prefer to meet a much lower standard.

What I'm seeing a lot of in this thread is people saying OK, maybe a burger we sold did have rat droppings in it, but I feel like our kitchen ought to be allowed to stay open unless they buy at least a few hundred burgers and find rat droppings in a statistically significant sample and even then shouldn't I get a few weeks to hire an exterminator? Isn't that fairer to me?