Re:Yahoo scanned customer emails for US intelligence
by snowwrestler on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @10:13AM
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"Maximizing shareholder value" has become like a Rorschach test, or a "just-so" story that people try to use to retroactively explain everything.
Why didn't Yahoo fight their order? Maximizing shareholder value.
Why did Apple fight their order? Maximizing shareholder value.
An explanation that applies to all outcomes does not actually explain anything.
Re:Yahoo scanned customer emails for US intelligence
by tanderson92 on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @11:12AM
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Regardless of the merit of your claim, it remains the case that the provided example is ineffective.
There were many earlier this year that said standing up to the FBI improved their perception in foreign markets.
> Will this meme never die on HN? There is an obvious counter-example: Apple, a public corporation who publicly fought a similar request.
This is a poor example to use to disprove the claim; Apple used the FBI encounter to prove to customers that they were tough on security, a component of their value proposition to a segment of the customer base.