Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech

Re:Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech by misiti3780 on Friday June 05, 2020 @01:29PM (#23431192)

I assumed that it's his/their fiduciary duty to maximize profit, and if the current excutive team doesnt do that, they will be replaced with a team that will.

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Re:Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech by jefftk on Friday June 05, 2020 @01:36PM (#23431309)

Execs have wide latitude to do their jobs, and considering the current circumstances I could see them deciding that declining to take police as customers would be better for the company long term.

This would be a very defensible decision legally (not a lawyer). You're right that it could plausibly lead to some sort of shareholder rebellion, but I'd be surprised.

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Re:Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech by jefftk on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @06:44PM (#23483064)

Here's Amazon making a similar decision: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23482406

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