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2 years agoFor those who don’t know, the strategy is called Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish. The phase comes from Microsoft who used this to (try to) crush competing document editors, Java implementations, browsers, and operating systems. Other big tech companies employ similar strategies.
Facebook coming to the Fediverse is the Embrace phase of this process and that makes Mastodon, Lemmy, Kbin, Misskey, and Akkoma the competitors.
No. The death penalty is never the correct punishment. If restorative justice isn’t possible, then life in prison is the worst punishment you should have.
In extreme cases like this, you want to keep these people alive in order to investigate earlier crimes. I doubt this is the first time these cops did this kind of shit.