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Seems like that would be illegal and they should be on trial. I wonder if I went into Amazon and started to destroy a PC or two would I be held accountable?

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Not if you destroy the evidence that you destroyed a PC! /s

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oh wow crazy the capitalists are ghoulish liars who fucking knew

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Just behead them all and be done with it, we know they’re guilty.

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of course they did, the penalty for getting caught destroying evidence is far, far less than the penalty for the price fixing they’re accused of. the law is designed to incentivize them to do this.

we could make it so that the penalty for destroying evidence in a court case once its been subpoenaed is twice the penalty of the original case, but we don’t. we could make CEOs responsible for the actions of their employees (after all, they’re quick to claim responsibility for the actions of their employees when those actions generate money), but we don’t.

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It’s not going to stop until we start holding executives physically responsible for their crimes in disfiguring ways. “Why is the right half of your face missing, Bob?” “Insider trading” he writes on an index card because he’s been debarked.

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It’s not though. It usually laxed but generally rules of procedure allow a judge to accept spoliation as proof of the crime they’re accused of.

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Well they weren’t under investigation at the time, so they didn’t do anything wrong. “Destroying years of evidence” in this case can simply mean cleaning up someone’s email inbox or throwing away some old printouts on someone’s desk.

Stupid clickbait headline.

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Hmm. Suppose I commit a crime, and I have video evidence of it. But then it occurs to me that the cops might come looking. So I delete the video. According to you, I didn’t do anything wrong…

Also, you seem to think that inboxes take up a lot of storage. Hmm. Actually, they take up almost no storage. It’s very easy to archive written documents for decades.

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No you didn’t do anything wrong by deleting the video.

The size of an inbox on the server is irrelevant. Some people like to delete stuff when they don’t need it anymore.

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