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The reason we need CEOs is so someone can answer for a company's wrongdoing (hexbear.net)

submitted 8 months ago by BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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From this post: https://hexbear.net/post/2063160. The whole comments thread is gold, this guy is on a reply streak.

Someone get him on the lathe, let's see more CEOs getting held personally liable.

Also, bonus points that this guy can take time away from his busy day of running a company to post on IGN comment threads, really speaks to the important work he's doing.

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[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 40 points 8 months ago

What? Just implement a corporate death penalty and have the state seize the corporation's asset if the corporate person does something illegal. Corporations are people, don't they know this?

[-] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 31 points 8 months ago

"I will believe corporations are people when Texas executes one."

[-] cqthca@reddthat.com 3 points 8 months ago

Enron?

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 16 points 8 months ago

Besides, when's the last time a CEO was actually held personally liable for anything in the US? It's purely an academic distinction, and I would argue it's probably easier to keep an AI within the confines of the law if governments mandated this to be the case. You program it in, and if you didn't the owner is liable.

[-] cqthca@reddthat.com 2 points 8 months ago

One time a dead Pope's corpse was put on trial. Cadaver Synod - wikipedia

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago

We'll do this with kissinger

[-] cqthca@reddthat.com 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

We could. I think he did a lot of fucked up things, just to get pussy I read his biography. https://www.amazon.com/Kissinger-Biography-Walter-Isaacson/dp/0743286979 I also read the book transcripts of the Nixon Tapes