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VW wouldn't help locate car with abducted child because GPS subscription expired (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 69 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

mmmm taste that free market. im sure that consumer will use their money to buy elsewhere, thereby telling volkswagon exactly how that behavior will be tolerated!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (1 children)

yep. the invisible hand of the market will surely correct for this and everything will become just and good... as long as pesky regulations don't stick their noses in it....

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

And unions! We all know how evil and horrible those unions are. I'm sure it's their fault too!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

No doubt exactly how Volkswagen went under when people stopped buying them because they maliciously tampered with emissions computers, literally poisoning people around their cars to make them look more efficient. Justice will no doubt be swift for these large organisations.