Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it

Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• forrgott@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You seem to be under some misconception regarding why actually wires our laws. Hint: they’re called lobbyists to get people to ignore the rampant bribery.

  source

  • titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Bribery? They are buying a company. That’s it. There isn’t anything special about it. It’s like any other company out there. 

    source

    • forrgott@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And I was talking about the so-called legality of the situation. So, pretty clearly not referring to the headline…

      source

      • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If you’re not talking about the headline, what “situation” are you talking about?

        source
      • titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Again, no legal issues.

        source

        • -> View More Comments
• okamiueru@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What exactly about it is it you feel should be illegal?

  source

  • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Foreign country buying a US corporation.

    source

    • Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      US companies by foreign companies all the time, look at the food and drink corporations.

      This is not a new or strange thing

      source

      • cecilkorik@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s definitely not new, but it’s time to start thinking about how strange it is, and start pulling these assholes off their money-merry-go-round.

        source

        • -> View More Comments
      • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Except many foreign countries have stricter legal frameworks for corporations.

        The “corporations are people” legal fiction means they have rights here. Citizen’s United has fucked this country in profoundly dumb ways.

        source
    • greenskye@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’d think we’d be far more concerned about critical resource companies before we got to worrying about gaming companies, but we can’t even do that so I’m not surprised.

      source