Reply to post: Re: Don't stop with the app maker

SF tech biz forks out $146m in fines, settlements after painkiller makers bribed it to design medical software that pushed opioids to patients

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Re: Don't stop with the app maker

What about going after the drug companies, they'll find it harder to vanish without paying. Make them forfeit the rights to any drug they've pushed like this, so that it becomes a freely-available generic.

Whilst your sentiment is first-rate, it is a misplaced incentive. Nothing stops corporate corruption so fast as a suit in a cell.

Going after the company means that the shareholders - like you and me through our pension funds - get punished, but the executives who actually did the deed walk away, pockets bulging, especially as this usually takes years to come out.

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