Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech
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Re: Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech
#2Former Slack employee here...
This blog post/case study was published a few years ago by Slack's marketing team and led to a firestorm of controversy within the company. Many employees of all backgrounds spoke up about how upset they were that Slack would use a police department as marketing. Eventually the decision was made to keep it up which certainly frustrated a lot of people. I guess now the leaders have decided it's time to take it down.
edit: in private channels for POC, which I was a part of, people were incensed at the insensitivity. At the time I felt it was a particularly stupid choice for marketing material but not necessarily a moral wrong.
Re: Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech
#3is there a link to the archived post?
Re: Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech
#4is there a link to the archived post?
Should be this one https://archive.is/iCVq0
Re: Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech
#5I don’t get it. Are we now advocating that police is overall more of a force of evil than good? Legitimate question.
Re: Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech
#6Post in question: https://archive.is/iCVq0
(Sorry to post twice but think this is relevant as a root level comment)
Re: Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech
#7Former Slack employee here... This blog post/case study was published a few years ago by Slack's marketing team and led to a firestorm of controversy within the company. Many employees of all backgrounds spoke up about how upset they were that Slack would use a police department as marketing. Eventually the decision was made to keep it up which certainly frustrated a lot of people. I guess now the leaders have decide…
A few years ago I would've thought thought that was an overreaction (assuming police were just using it as customers, and not something like surveillance). This week, I no longer feel that way.
Re: Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech
#8I don’t get it. Are we now advocating that police is overall more of a force of evil than good? Legitimate question.
That is what's becoming apparent right now, yes. I was more of an "a few bad apples" person until this week. But they're making it extremely clear that as a faction they have no regard for anything or anyone but their own power and bravado.
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#9Post in question: https://archive.is/iCVq0 (Sorry to post twice but think this is relevant as a root level comment)
Link looks broken. Getting 403 Forbidden.
Re: Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech
#10The last thing any company needs right now is the media digging up an old blog post/Tweet of them praising the police, so can't blame them. I wouldn't be surprised if the post magically comes back up when things are back to normal.