• ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    4 months ago

    More importantly it was the 1950s before the Clean Water Act. Where both entities involved existed under the framework of industry self-regulation that is being directly criticized here.

    The issue isn’t a company or government is responsible: it is that the system of self regulation results in failures with significant collateral damage.

    Regulation also binds government, believe it or not.

    • areyouevenreal@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      4 months ago

      Sure it does, but you were directly trying to blame the company, and not the government that screwed it up. Stop shifting goalposts.

      • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        4 months ago

        I established they were held legally liable, which they were, in response to a comment that stated the government was the one who fucked up.

        Ain’t no zero-sum binary brained scenario.