pyrex@awful.systems
on 01 May 2024 19:17
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Apparently, if you want to get away with crimes, you should find someone you can rat on and commit them in a way that makes that person highly complicit.
froztbyte@awful.systems
on 02 May 2024 09:09
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you know, I’m not a fan of the carceral system (and even less so the US flavour of it), but this is so fucked. it’s a god damned shame that it’s presently likely these dirtbags will never pay their due to society[0] for all the harm they caused
([0] - not that sticking someone in a concrete cell is in any way addressing that debt, ofc)
dgerard@awful.systems
on 02 May 2024 19:27
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to be fair, CZ is absolutely the richest guy in a US cell right now, and possibly ever (though I haven’t checked the latter)
BlueMonday1984@awful.systems
on 02 May 2024 13:14
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Whatever CZ gave to the feds, it must’ve been a fucking goldmine.
AcausalRobotGod@awful.systems
on 06 May 2024 19:09
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I think this might have basis as well in the lenient treatment of banks in the past for similar crimes. Which is also a shame.
dgerard@awful.systems
on 06 May 2024 21:11
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Apparently, if you want to get away with crimes, you should find someone you can rat on and commit them in a way that makes that person highly complicit.
you know, I’m not a fan of the carceral system (and even less so the US flavour of it), but this is so fucked. it’s a god damned shame that it’s presently likely these dirtbags will never pay their due to society[0] for all the harm they caused
([0] - not that sticking someone in a concrete cell is in any way addressing that debt, ofc)
to be fair, CZ is absolutely the richest guy in a US cell right now, and possibly ever (though I haven’t checked the latter)
Whatever CZ gave to the feds, it must’ve been a fucking goldmine.
I think this might have basis as well in the lenient treatment of banks in the past for similar crimes. Which is also a shame.
so what happens with those is crippling compliance obligations, which Binance was also hit with