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Comment by twodave

13 hours ago

Putting aside this is sort of a knee-jerk reaction, if this was actually implemented you’d just see the role of the CEO change to basically be a highly-paid fall-guy. People in those positions today would vacate them for quieter roles behind the scenes, and corporations would put greater effort forth to hide their decision making processes. I don’t think it would be a better system.

>you’d just see the role of the CEO change to basically be a highly-paid fall-guy.

That seems to be assuming a world where CEOs actually face meaningful consequences and that feels like a good start.

  • "Meaningful consequences" in this case means "throwing a CEO in jail until they de-anonymize their platform," which sounds ripe for abuse to me.

    • In this specific case, perhaps. In most it means "throwing a CEO in prison or fining them extensively for crimes they have committed".

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Sure, and we can deal with that problem when it comes to it. For now, there are people at these companies that are clearly responsible and can be held accountable.