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I utterly loathe Hanlon's razor. It's peak naivete, especially when it's applied to groups of people that have ulterior motives - like business interests. It essentially gives companies a carte blanche to do evil shit, and when they get caught, all they have to do is blush and say "oops, how could that have possibly happened???!" But in reality, they were just doing some sort of self-serving behavior and hoping they could get away with it. And of course, they'll just end up doing it again a few months or years later on when the attention has died away.

Moral of the story: Hanlon's razor does not apply to corporations or other business interests. If it's your neighbors, well maybe give them the benefit of the doubt. If it's a multinational conglomerate, hell no, fuck that. Assume guilt 100% of the time.

[-] Malgas@beehaw.org 10 points 1 week ago

I think you're underestimating the heavy lifting being done by "adequately". Does stupidity adequately explain a corporation doing evil shit that made them a bunch of money? Absolutely not.

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