• Pacattack57@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    We need to find a way to make settlements in exchange for silence illegal. That is not justice.

    • flandish@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      always bugged me that the 1st amendment is only applicable to a gov’s control of a person. not a person’s “selling” their silence to a corporation. i’m saying, take the money and still speak. but that amendment won’t protect you.

      corporations need to be dissolved when they do shit like this.

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        6 hours ago

        If one was willing to play as dirty as the big companies it could be got away with. The threat is one would be sued into oblivion, if all of ones assets were hidden adequately that threat would be meaningless

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          4 hours ago

          Even with no assets, they’d still drag you into court. Even if you completely rolled over and threw yourself on the mercy of the court, they’d garnish your wages. Good luck ever getting credit from a bank again.