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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
#22I don’t get it. Are we now advocating that police is overall more of a force of evil than good? Legitimate question.
Dave Chappelle had a bit that went something like this:
>Honey, did you see this? - Apparently, the Police have been beating up negroes like hotcakes!
The special he mentioned this joke was aired in 2000. I bring this up because it highlights that for some people the police haven't been a force of good for a long time, and smartphones and social media are forcing people to confront that fact. There has been many arguments that people have always been making about how the police in this country been over militarized despite have far fewer training than actual soldiers, and these weapons built for use in the middle east are being used against the poor in the US.
IMO, it's not that the police is now more overall a force of "evil", is that there always been systemically corrupt, and you have just been to well off to notice.
Re: Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech
#23Possibly somewhat ironically (and hypocritically?), the CEO seems very anti-police based on twitter: https://twitter.com/stewart/status/1268749287615156230 https://twitter.com/stewart Disclaimer: I am a happy user of slack and do not have an opinion on the blog post
I'm guessing the CEO is not anti-money.
Re: Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech
#24Former 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.
To be fair the customer and surveilance are linked as a matter of conflict of interest in general. Not quite a concern for a single local PD but say all of NYPD or whole states would be a big enough contract to be able to exert pressure by threatening to switch to more "cooperative" providers.
Re: Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech
#25I don’t get it. Are we now advocating that police is overall more of a force of evil than good? Legitimate question.
I don't know how you could look at the events of the past week and come to any other conclusion.
Re: Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech
#26Former 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…
It was a particularly stupid decision IMO since "we partner/co-operate with US police departments" is the last thing that large companies - especially foreign ones - want to hear from an app that stores their most sensitive data.
Re: Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech
#27Former 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.
Honest foreigner question: are all US police that "stinky" that any association with them is now bad, or is it an overreaction? Surely there are good police departments, ones that work with the community and not against them?
But maybe I'm not seeing it from the perspective of those black employees...
Re: Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech
#28Possibly somewhat ironically (and hypocritically?), the CEO seems very anti-police based on twitter: https://twitter.com/stewart/status/1268749287615156230 https://twitter.com/stewart Disclaimer: I am a happy user of slack and do not have an opinion on the blog post
I'm guessing the CEO is not anti-money.
Also, he probably cant legally not let police departments use it, it's publically traded.
Re: Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech
#29Re: Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech
#30Possibly somewhat ironically (and hypocritically?), the CEO seems very anti-police based on twitter: https://twitter.com/stewart/status/1268749287615156230 https://twitter.com/stewart Disclaimer: I am a happy user of slack and do not have an opinion on the blog post
Nice to see our Elite laugh at people losing jobs because they belong to certain profession while 40 million are on Unemployment.
Great Job Slack!