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Nestle? Spectrum? Some random company nobody knows about?

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[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 214 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bayer. They knowingly sold HIV infected blood to Latin America after the blood was rejected in Europe. This still blows my mind. Some corporate waste of oxygen actually decided to do this. It wasn't an accident. That guy needs to get stabbed with ~~thousands~~ ten fucking thousand ~~of~~ AIDS needles.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/23/aids.suzannegoldenberg

[-] andy_wijaya_med@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

The fuck man

[-] CorInABox@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago

And the Essure permanent birth control device, causing persistent pain, bleeding and other health problems to thousands of women. Withdrawn from the US market before the Netflix documentary released

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jul/25/the-bleeding-edge-netflix-documentary-medical-devices

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[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

They also bought Monsanto and, if anything, ramped up the evil from THAT murderous shitshow!

Why am I suddenly thinking about Norm Macdonald and Hitler? 😉

[-] dedale@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Did a little bit of digging on that one, before being bought by Bayer, the Cutter biological division was responsible for another pharmaceutical disaster. They accidentally (?) sold 120 000 doses of polio vaccines containing the live polio virus.

[-] andrew@midwest.social 11 points 1 year ago

They also acquired and still run the business previously done by Monsanto known for things like agent orange and eliminating corn biodiversity. Their legal department is also infamous for bankrupting small farmers.

[-] tryagain@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Jesus. Straight to the top

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[-] JoeClu@lemmy.world 97 points 1 year ago

Dutch East India Company - The original corporate raiders.

MASS ATROCITIES!

[-] jossbo@lemmy.ml 45 points 1 year ago

They are the Bug Bad Evil in my pirate themed DnD campaign. Or a proxy of them at least. What better justification for becoming a pirate than them? To quote a real pirate captain from the 1700, "They rob the poor under cover of law, we plunder the rich under the cover of our own courage."

[-] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 year ago

That's a 10/10 quote

[-] Antiques@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

And no. 2 is The British East India Company

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[-] mohKohn@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

came here to say this. though if American slave traders had actually been a unified corporation I'd be pointing at them.

[-] livus@kbin.social 76 points 1 year ago

Ok so Nestle for child murder, Bayer for AIDs blood, Union Carbide for Bhopal disaster and its parent Dow Chemical for Agent Orange (Monsanto too).

IBM for helping the Nazis with concentration camps and Degesch for Zyclon B. United Fruit Company and Dutch & British East India Companies for colonization, also everyone that was shipping rubber out of the Belgian Congo.

Everyone who makes landmines, cluster bombs, etc.

I think when this question is asked in 100 years Palantir is going to feature.

[-] jocanib@lemmy.world 62 points 1 year ago
[-] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

This is the answer, hands down.

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[-] small44@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago

United Fruit Company because they manipulated several countries in Central America and helped the CIA overthrowing the democratically elected government in Guatemala

[-] optissima@possumpat.io 13 points 1 year ago

20th century East India Company.

[-] FlyLikeAMouse@feddit.uk 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 53 points 1 year ago

So many to choose from...

DuPont Chemical?

Wells Fargo?

Wal-Mart?

Coca-Cola?

My pick would be Bank of America for their illegal foreclosure practices which have ruined many families' lives, and especially for their role in the subprime mortgage crisis which destabilized the entire global economy and which we are still trying to recover from. Everyone on the entire planet was impacted by the Great Recession.

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[-] AnarchoYeasty@beehaw.org 41 points 1 year ago

Chiquita bananas. They literally stole entire south/central American countries and used death squads and the CIA to enslave the workers and kill them when they asked for such unreasonable demands like being paid in actual currency

[-] Idefinitelydonotknow@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Banana Republic is a term coined for all the countries where this company operated.

[-] JGrffn@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

As someone who lives in a banana republic that now has banana republic stores in its malls, this is a perplexing and sort of insulting end result, and I don't understand how the name of the store ever took off

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[-] Bennieboj@kbin.social 38 points 1 year ago
[-] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 17 points 1 year ago

Nestlé is responsible for misleading African mothers into thinking formula is better than their own breast milk. They lied to expectant mothers just to sell formula.

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[-] ZuriMuri@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 1 year ago

Google

They made private data the „new gold“ which it is today long before social media started exploiting it. Changing their motto /code of conduct „Don’t be evil“ into „Do the right thing“ (for our shareholders) didn’t benefit their reputation either…

[-] hardypart@feddit.de 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Changing their motto /code of conduct „Don’t be evil“ into „Do the right thing“ (for our shareholders) didn’t benefit their reputation either…

It's still in their code of conduct, though.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Only as a joke.

[-] dobeltip@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago
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[-] SHITPOSTING_ACCOUNT@feddit.de 22 points 1 year ago

I'm sure there are worse, and it's not one company, but the companies that provide malware to dictatorships are pretty bad, and western countries are sheltering them/not doing much about them.

Examples:

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[-] BaldProphet@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

Saudi Aramco or ExxonMobil

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[-] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago

That's the problem, really. Numerous companies do unspeakable evil, which makes it very difficult to name and shame any one of them.

[-] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

Right. Corporations aren't the problem, they're just a symptom of the real problem. Even though they're evil, they're just a product of their environment. The "good" corporations aren't profitable and go out of business.

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[-] Karlos_Cantana@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 year ago

Dave's Electronics at 4th & Elm

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[-] Countmacula@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Johnson&Johnson

swindled does a few episodes about them. It’s FUCKING INFURIATING the shit they got away with.

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[-] rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Hard to pick a favorite from the long list.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago

I can't believe you even put Spectrum in the same tier as Nestle lol.

[-] MrSlicer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

One let babies starve for profit, the other has shitty internet service /customer service. Seems equal /s.

[-] ProtonBadger@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

I'm guessing it would some of the big companies of colonial times, like the British East or Dutch India Companies.

[-] Mandy@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

A lot of good choices here already so ill throw blackrock into the ring

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