Re:Ask HN: Can you legally deny selling software to someone ...
by deogeo on Friday December 07, 2018 @07:27PM
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I can't offer much advice, except this: you should treat the two questions separately:
1. Who do you want to deny business to.
2. Who you can, legally, deny business to.
A lawyer can answer #2, but only yourselves can answer #1. Be careful, as too much internal debate may split the company along ideological lines - in searching for where to draw the line, you're likely to run into issues on which you (strongly) disagree (reminds me of http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/ ).
It might be best if the boss draws a line somewhere that won't make too many people angry (and reserves the right to decide any gray areas on a case by case basis), and quickly ends the discussion. Anything else is, in my opinion, asking for an ideological war.
1. Who do you want to deny business to. 2. Who you can, legally, deny business to.
A lawyer can answer #2, but only yourselves can answer #1. Be careful, as too much internal debate may split the company along ideological lines - in searching for where to draw the line, you're likely to run into issues on which you (strongly) disagree (reminds me of http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/ ).
It might be best if the boss draws a line somewhere that won't make too many people angry (and reserves the right to decide any gray areas on a case by case basis), and quickly ends the discussion. Anything else is, in my opinion, asking for an ideological war.