On: Cowards

[threeseed]

Because CEOs need to act like adults not petulant little children.

You obey the law. Period. And if you don't agree with it you lobby directly or encourage your users to do so.

[bambax → threeseed]

The whole business model of Silicon Valley is based on not obeying the law. It's called "disrupting", and how it works is "let's break laws and regulations we disagree with until they're either changed or recognized as obsolete".

This is how Uber works, or AirBnB... but not only. Facebook or Google routinely ignore European privacy laws. Twitter ignores European laws about free speech (which you and I may consider "bad" laws, but which are laws nonetheless).

So why is it that suddenly everyone hides behind the "law"?

[wavefunction → threeseed]

Not if the law is immoral, but run along little authoritarian.

[chii → threeseed]

you don't have to obey the law, you choose to obey. When you decide to not obey the law, you also decide to face the consequences.

When the law doesn't sit well with you, you should indeed choose to not obey, then fight the consequences.