At the Judges' Bench.
Bang, bang, bang!
From the Presiding Judge's seat, Cao Liqiang glanced discreetly at Su Bai and struck the Gavel. "The defendant has refused mediation. The hearing will continue."
"Plaintiff, please present your arguments, legal defense, or evidence supporting your claim that Penguin Holdings Co., Ltd. engaged in unfair competition against you."
"Yes, Presiding Judge."
Su Bai began slowly. "Before that, however, we need to ask the defendant a question."
"First: according to defense counsel's earlier statement, the removal was an internal platform measure. But which internal platform rule was the removal based on?"
This question.
They had been through it many times before.
Chen Chao was no stranger to questions like this. He said slowly:
"It was based on a risk assessment of third-party minigames. We removed the plaintiff's minigame out of consideration for our platform's security."
Chen Chao answered this sort of question immediately.
He shifted the blame outright.
You're accusing me of unfair competition, but I acted out of security concerns. On what grounds can you call my removal unfair competition?
If you ask what security was affected, sorry, I don't know.
Or perhaps there was a mistake in our operations. Sorry, we'll fix it immediately.
An earnest admission of fault.
That way, even if there were any problems, they would not involve legal issues concerning competition.
It amounted to waving a grand banner while shifting the blame everywhere, without having to take any responsibility.
Tsk, tsk.
The corners of Su Bai's mouth lifted slightly. That security department had certainly been saddled with an enormous share of the blame!
But he had studied Penguin thoroughly!
He knew that whenever his side sued, whether for suspected monopolistic practices or suspected unfair competition, the other side had eight hundred excuses, six hundred and ninety-nine of which