• ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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    6 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
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      6 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.