Think of it as a game, the players are corpo, and gov.
Corpo hacks planet, gov says, “Hm, that’s pretty bad corpo, we could hold you accountable… but… that’s pretty neat, maybe share a lil with us how you achieved this terrible incident (that we totally don’t want to leverage against international peers) and we can forget this happened…”
A game of incentives.
If the gov comes down too hard, they could slow the development, the same development that they short-sightedly want to exploit in parallel with the accused.
Think of it as a game, the players are corpo, and gov.
Corpo hacks planet, gov says, “Hm, that’s pretty bad corpo, we could hold you accountable… but… that’s pretty neat, maybe share a lil with us how you achieved this terrible incident (that we totally don’t want to leverage against international peers) and we can forget this happened…”
A game of incentives.
If the gov comes down too hard, they could slow the development, the same development that they short-sightedly want to exploit in parallel with the accused.