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A nearly comical reminder that corporations aren't your friend. (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago (17 children)

I don't know which of these two situations happened

  1. Someone incredibly and insanely out of touch was watching The Boys and thought Vought was a guideline for how a good business operates

  2. Someone on a power trip wanted to try to legalize murder for his brand

I'm not sure which scenario scares me more, the incompetence or the evil.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (8 children)
  1. Realize they bear a large liability for this, and hope to weasel their way out of it.
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Some junior unpaid intern was tasked with reading all their agreements to see if there was anything they could use. They pitched this and the rest was history

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

😊 Well, you might think so, but if that were true then their legal team would have to be unimaginably inept. Even small companies rely on arbitration clauses. A company the size of Disney probably has boilerplate arbitration clauses prolifically spread throughout any agreement they make. I don't imagine there's anything their legal team says more often when they are named in a suit than, "can we arbitrate?"

So, yes they were relying on a remote technicality to get out of the suit, but that's also the only reason they were named in the suit. I don't blame them. And they know they wouldn't be found liable. But they also know that people only remember "the mcdonalds hot coffee lawsuit" being about some unintelligent gold digging woman (which BTW is a travesty). So the settlement that they will likely offer is going to be worth far less than the damage from the bad rep of a trial like this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I imagine the legal team's hands were tied, this smells like a corporate mandate.

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