Things that feel illegal will probably become illegal someday, but they think it's fine because, for now, it's not illegal.
Probably not for four years, at least
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things."
-Douglas Adams in The Salmon of Doubt
>Things that feel illegal will probably become illegal someday
Also, if you think about this phrasing for just a second, this is the chilling effect. Suppressing expression due to the anticipation of negative outcomes.
Didn't StreetView start blurring people when they ask? Seems like people don't mention it anymore because the privacy issue was mitigated.
Smartphones could be another good example. As the joke goes, people in the 60s are afraid the government wiretaps their phones. Nowadays, they say: "Hey wiretap! Do you have a recipe for pancakes?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Street_View_privacy_con...
In Europe many companies think ethics even if is not illegal on paper.
In the U.S. you need to get big before it is illegal, lobby for it and then pay fines. But fines are okay since you got big already.
Nestle. Shell Oil. I can go on... literally nothing about what you said is grounded in reality.
Look, I'm not +1 the EU here, but having some level of legal protection against marauding corporations is good. Sure EU based companies are evil, but they can't be as abusive to normal people because they are constrained by a semi-functional legal system.
The US used to have that as well, along with a functioning legislature.
To be clear, I gave testimony to the NTHSA that the first Porsche Taycan was unfit for road driving due to extreme errors in the software architecture and in part got the CEO of Porsche fired. (Specifically error handling so laughably bad it caused the entire car to lock up at speed.)
The EU only FOLLOWED grudgingly after the US demanded the recall. I am extremely aware of EXACTLY how risk-taking European companies are.
”Move fast and break things” was even the motto of Zuckerberg back in day in Facebook. There are studies about it.
Even Y Combinator has some history of admitting that they seek people like that:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2579990
I particularly meant tech companies. Of course, you can find unethical businesses everywhere.
SAP, Claude etc are all doing the same things American counterparts do. You need a slight dose of reality.