more fun than an eye full of piss ([info]jacoby_swift) wrote,
@ 2009-07-01 11:43:00
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What has fucking insensed me this morning, is an aside comment in a Guardian article about a bill to penalise American companies profiting from aiding repressive governments in censoring the internet.

Mentioning that this bill was blocked a few years ago by the Bush administration "with the former president's advisers arguing that laws governing corporate ethics were not beneficial to American prosperity."

!!!

I cant fucking believe a governing body would even suggest this! It makes me so angry my brain just sees red noise and I'm reduced to spitting incoherence!

No wonder most of the world hates The West. When we're capable of acting on rationales like that, I fucking hate us. :(

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[info]rev_j
2009-07-01 12:01 pm UTC (link)
"laws governing corporate ethics were not beneficial to American prosperity"

Never have truer words been published.

Not nice words, agreed, but it pretty much sums up their, (and through that our) entire foreign policy.

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[info]jacoby_swift
2009-07-01 01:27 pm UTC (link)
Its the government ethical equvalent of wiping blood off an Iphone while buying it from a chav in a pub.

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[info]rev_j
2009-07-01 03:42 pm UTC (link)
Sadly it's human nature, but amplified to a global scale.

As a race, we have become what we are through our ability to trample others underfoot.

As Jean Baudrillard once said:

"It is the practice of evil, and hence, in a sense, the inhuman, that is the distinctive mark of the human in the animal kingdom"

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[info]nyarbaggytep
2009-07-01 04:57 pm UTC (link)
That's a good quote.

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oh....?
[info]brute_force
2009-07-01 12:21 pm UTC (link)
" laws governing corporate ethics were not beneficial to American prosperity."
.... so the idea of putting in laws regulating the corporate greed that might have prevented the worldwide economic meltdown should be stopped immediately? Because I'm sure the corporate world can be trusted to sort all that out to our collective satisfaction....

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[info]jacoby_swift
2009-07-01 01:35 pm UTC (link)
And I think we should cancel the minimum wage, get rid of all those awkward health and safety rules, import a load of jonny foreigners in, and get our industry in a position to compete with China and India!

We could even just restrict it to within the boundaries of the Isle of White or something. I mean, you don't shit where you eat, do you?

I can't sit back on my leather sofa to enjoy the game on my 40" flat screen Ethics, can I?!

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[info]rev_j
2009-07-01 03:44 pm UTC (link)
"And I think we should cancel the minimum wage, get rid of all those awkward health and safety rules, import a load of jonny foreigners in, and get our industry in a position to compete with China and India!". - HELL YEAH!

I reckon we could get a pretty profitable sweatshop up and running in our basement. You could probably fit about thirty Chinese children in each room, plus equipment.

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[info]littleonionz
2009-07-01 12:51 pm UTC (link)
All governments are evil, some just hide it better.

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[info]jacoby_swift
2009-07-01 01:16 pm UTC (link)
You can't resign yourself to that kind of thing!

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