• areyouevenreal@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    They were forced to sell under threat of eminent domain. That’s why they tried to sell it for $1 along with a list of conditions on what it could be used for to highlight the danger. The Government then rejected this offer. Rather than trying to blame some random company just because you think all companies are evil, maybe go and read the history instead.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.