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>it's not as if they have done nothing that benefits society, that we all use daily, forgetting how much of it would not be possible without the contributions and innovation from these companies.

Perhaps I'm parsing this wrong, but it sounds a lot like "past successes are a license for future abuses." Which is not something I think we should, or can, allow.



I think you parsed that wrong.

I took it as “they have developed products that deliver value to some people every day, so summary execution would not be an unmitigated good”




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