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I don't think many would consider Bayer to ever be a "victim".

Interesting that on Bayer's wikipedia page [2] there is no link to the Contaminated haemophilia scandal [1]. In fact Bayer's wikipedia page seems to have been "cleaned". The "Controversies" section is gone.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_haemophilia_blood...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer

Wikipedia page cleaning seems to be the norm these days. There are some very peculiar Wikipedia editors who engage in a mix of seemingly-pertinent, well-sourced information removal and spurious mud-slinging.

There was the whole "Philip Cross" affair which seemed to be backed up by prominent figures in the Wikipedia community.[0]

Unfortunately, even the talk pages seem to be being sanitized now.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-44495696

It's naive to pretend it's not a battlefield.
Okay, I guess that's the end of Wikipedia then. Time go somewhere else.
It's nonetheless concerning what information an attacker may be trying to access.
If only companies/countries/individuals without a scandal or controversy in their history could become a 'victim', the newspapers would be amazingly empty...
Bayer used to have an illegal sign in Pittsburgh. Never seen a company care so little about everyone knowing they break they law.
What does it mean to have an illegal sign?
Probably a sign that doesn't conform to some regulations.
well, when your company was built on genocide, breaking some local laws around signage seems fine
Despite any judgements, they are a victim in the sense that a perpetrator launched an attack on them.

Wether that attack is justified or not I'll not comment on

The information instead exists in the Products -> Overview section. The entire section is mostly dedicated to listing controversies and one has to read past these controversies to find out what products are sold by the company. Products that include one of the company's top selling drugs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciprofloxacin which is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines. The Products -> Overview section is very pessimistic in its description of products produced by the company, which doesn't seem fair when balanced against products which are deemed essential to world health.

I've also updated information on contaminated haemophilia blood products in Wikidata[1]. Wikidata is not limited by article lengths and the need to prioritise the layout of sections and information in the same way that Wikipedia is.

[1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q928528

I don't get it...

After a you have committed a crime (and you were punished for) you are free to be done crime against without repercussions?

Sometimes I wonder where the keyboard warriors on this forum get their moral compass from... This codex isn't even consistent. If your past deeds define the rights you have in court today Bayer would probably win any case against it considering their inventions in medicine probably saved hundreds of thousands of peoples' lives.

This feudal mindset is so backwards it would even make the pope blush.

Fun fact, Bayer bought Monsanto last year.
Yep, DW german news was covering it. Law suits against Monsanto were being settle after the buyout and a few people were talking about how American court were waiting until Monsanto was bought by the German before the suit is settle.

This is on top of the CEO of Bayer stating to the news media that he knew about Monsanto having a bad image. On top of the fact that Bayer sold HIV blood and supplied chemical during WWII for the Nazi.

Next fun fact: Bayer and Monsanto together are now worth less than Monsanto alone at the time of the acquisition.
What happened?
Too much evil spirit for a single company to contain. And they had to pay like 80M Eur in damages to a pensioner being related to Glyphosat being carcinogenic. This ruling may have set a precedent for the future.
US juries, after years of reluctance, spontaneously decide that Glyphosat is a killer and worth heavy punitive damages.

As soon as a foreign company bought Monsanto, that is.

I don't really mind the verdict itself, but the timing is more than a bit suspicious.

> I don't really mind the verdict itself, but the timing is more than a bit suspicious.

Yeah, that's definitely a bit weird. It's similar to when a government entity in the USA suddenly discovered the Diesel cheating just when big foreign car manufacturers had large successes in the US market. Even though it was made to look like it in the news, Volkswagen wasn't the biggest perpetrator [0]. And currently the US government puts major pressure onto the DTAG-Sprint merger and constantly comes up with new requirements, e.g. now they want DTAG to stop buying Huawei products world wide [1].

[0]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Nitrogen...

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sprint-corp-m-a-t-mobile-...

It wasn't like foreign autos weren't successful in the us until 5-10 years ago. BMW, Audi, VAG were not just suddenly crushing us companies.
Doesn't that mean, that Monsanto and Bayer were both hopelessly overvalued by the time of the acquisition? I wonder which other company-valuations are overblown only by the image a they have (cough ... facebook ... cough).

Metrics beyond "observables" -- assets, infrastructure, patents -- seem to be impossible, when considering investments, i.e. how much of these values are pure speculation (?). On the other hand -- these lawsuits were also "observable", but not really "measurable".

I'm a trucker. A few months ago I went to pick up some freight from "Bayer," at a distribution center, and it was consumer bottles of Roundup destined for a retail garden supply company.

I was a little confused, until I remembered "Oh yeah, right, Bayer bought Monsanto."

Geeh, I wonder why the Chinese hacked one of the biggest companies in the world.

Maybe for ... let's take a guess... trade secrets and IP?

At this point, considering China's all but official policy of stealing IP by any means possible, any large company not being hacked by the Chinese should be asking: 'what are we doing wrong that the Chinese hackers are ignoring us?'.
Or "Why hasn't our IT/infosec department detecting the hacking that has presumably already happened?"
Yes, there is that too...
I'm sure we can expect this as a darknet diaries episode soon