Today’s links How Google’s trial secrecy lets it control the coverage: You got it wrong, but we won’t tell you how. The Lost Cause prologue, part III: Going viral in the free world. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading How Google’s trial secrecy lets it control the coverage (permalink) “Corporate crime” is practically an oxymoron in America. While it’s true that the single most consequential and profligate theft in America is wage theft, its mechanisms are so obscure and, well, dull that it’s easy to sell us on the false impression that the real problem is shoplifting: https://newrepublic.com/post/175343/wage-theft-versus-shoplifting-crime Corporate crime is often hidden behind Dana Clare’s Shield Of Boringness, cloaked in euphemisms like “risk and compliance” or that old favorite, “white collar crime”: https://pluralistic.net/2021/12/07/solar-panel-for-a-sex-machine/#a-single-proposition And corporate crime has a kind of performative complexity. The crimes come to us wreathed in specialized jargon and technical terminology that make them hard to discern. Which is wild, because corporate crimes occur on a scale that other crimes – even those committed by organized crime – can’t hope to match: https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/12/no-criminals-no-crimes/#get-out-of-jail-free-card But anything that can’t go on forever eventually stops. After decades of official tolerance (and even encouragement), corporate criminals are finally in the crosshairs of federal enforcers. Take National Labor Relations Board general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo’s ruling in Cemex: when a company takes an illegal action to affect the outcome of a union…Pluralistic: How Google's trial secrecy lets it control the coverage; The Lost Cause prologue, part III (09 Oct 2023)