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Authorities Arrest Activists Instead of Those Responsible For CA Gas Leak (inhabitat.com)

Posted by yaelk on from the who-would-have-thought dept.

MikeChino writes: The California State Patrol has arrested two people in connection with the massive methane leak in Southern California's Aliso Canyon. Instead of busting company executives and engineers that caused the leak, the CSP arrested protesters who had draped banners on the headquarters of the California Public Utilities Commission. The banners highlighted the lax regulatory environment that enabled the spill.

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  1. There is no "California State Patrol" by chispito · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think you mean the California Highway Patrol

    This suggests something about the quality of the source's and the submitter's fact checking ability.

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    1. Re:There is no "California State Patrol" by OverlordQ · · Score: 5, Informative

      > This suggests something about the quality of the source's and the submitter's fact checking ability.

      Check all of his submissions, they're all trying to astroturf his shitty 'news' site

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  2. Yes by OverlordQ · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Instead of busting company executives and engineers that caused the leak, the CSP arrested protesters who had draped banners on the headquarters of the California Public Utilities Commission.

    Because the corporation has already been charged. What's your point here? You're saying if somebody does something illegal, everybody else gets a free pass to do illegal things to them? That's stupid.

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    1. Re:Yes by AmiMoJo · · Score: 5, Interesting

      It's time to introduce jail for corporations. In Japan corporations can be forced to shut down for a number of days. Staff sometimes get paid if they were not to blame, but otherwise the company can't do any business at all during that period.

      The longest shut down so far was over 100 days.

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  3. Is this Slashdot? by ichthus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What the fuck is this story doing on Slashdot? How is this, in any way, tech related?

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