When will the executives face criminal trial too?

“ The seven members of eBay’s security team were all criminally charged and sentenced to prison, home confinement or time served.

Other executives went on to other corporate jobs. Wymer and Wenig left eBay in September 2019, before the charges were filed. The following year, Wymer was appointed chief of the non-profit Boys and Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley. Wenig has been on General Motors’ board since 2018 and now runs an AI start-up. Jones remained at eBay until 2020 and now sits on Prudential Financial’s board.

The Steiners sued the trio and other former executives along with the company in the case that led to the $56mn payout. Under the terms of the settlement, Wenig agreed to pay $2mn, Jones must contribute $500,000 and Wymer $50,000, according to the pair’s lawyers.”

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polytely 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Do we know what AI startup? I think its important for people to know when they do business with that startup.

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dqv 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

https://symbolic.ai/team

	▲	formerlurker a day ago \| parent [-]
		“The first AI platform created for professional journalists, communicators, and publishers.” It’s quite ironic that he went on to cater to communicators after harassing bloggers.

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dylan604 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Dream a little dream of the world you want, then be prepared for the alarm to go off to rejoin the real world. An insignificant number of people care and while everyone else does business with anyone as long as there's benefit for them. As exhibit A, I present all of history

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JumpCrisscross 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

> As exhibit A, I present all of history

History shows tiny effort pays off massively. To the extent you have a point, it’s in people creating elaborate excuses for lazy nihilism across time.

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lovich 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I wonder if Captain Boycott would agree.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boycott

	▲	dylan604 a day ago \| parent [-]
		Many of the worst offenders have survived boycotts because people don't care enough to change habits. They may vocally state their support of a boycott, yet continue to use the services of the boycott target. (It's easy to change your avatar on the socials as a virtue signal, but it takes effort to actually follow through.) Walmart, Amazon, etc have all survived boycotts but they have not been hurt nor changed their ways. The number of people that have permanently boycotted these places are insignificant. For example, personally, I no longer have a Prime account and do not shop at Walmart. Neither company notice. Even if all of the readers of HN stopped using either service, neither would be affected in a significant way even if they did notice.

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