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Spammers Bribe Russian Officials
hellkyng writes with a transcript of interesting chat logs in Krebs on Security. From the article: "Leaked online chats between the co-owners of the world's largest pharmacy spam operation reveal the extent to which illicit organizations in Russia purchase political protection, and bribe public officials into initiating or stalling law enforcement investigations."
Except the spammers are corporations. And the bribes are campaign contributions. And the public officials are, oh they're still public officials.
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Spammers Bribe Russian Officials
And polluters bribe Chinese officials and large companies bribe American lawmakers and logging companies bribe South American governments and ... well, this list would get ridiculously long if we kept it going. I would be willing to bet that the spammers that operate in the United States have to grease the wheels at their banks and who knows where else? Hell, in Mexico, the police basically make you bribe them on the spot whether you can take a hint or not. You could probably say "Spammers Bribe Officials" and no doubt it's universally true.
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The difference is that without government help the corporations can not send the FBI to seize my shit. Or send the police to break into my home. The corporations (without government help) can not put me in prison.
Without the governments help you couldn't keep corporations from putting you in their own prisons. I'll never understand pseudo-anarchists. Because the government has police and jails, corporations generally don't. Personally, I prefer it that way.