PR gold rush on Charlottesville?

Microsoft / Eng
billsdaddy

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billsdaddy
Aug 16, 2017 10 Comments

Seems like most tech companies are rushing to take action that shows that they are against white supremacy after the Charlottesville attacks:

* Cloudflare dropped a white supremacy site
* Apple disabled payments to them and donated to ADL and others
* Spotify removed a few bands
* AirBnB cancelled reservations of white supremacists (before the attack actually)

What's motivating this? Are there threats coming from leftist groups or is this just a gold rush for their PR depts to signal their virtue?

(I'm very much anti-white-supremacist also, but companies of the size of these tend to take actions like this out of business need rather than actual ethics)

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  • Oracle
    Rational_

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    Rational_
    Just virtue signalling.
    Nothing more.

    They have their virtue signalling departments all working overtime to make sure the whole world can clearly see how Holy & Righteous they are.
    Aug 16, 2017 0
  • Do you think there's something wrong with the positions that the companies have taken?
    Aug 16, 2017 5
    • The pendulum won't swing that much. Chill.
      Aug 17, 2017
    • @billsdaddy has a point. How long would it take to find a rap song with the N word from 25 years ago where the band happened to have someone white? Or, was white? Then what? When you censor one group, you necessarily allow censorship of another. Look up the PMRC.
      Aug 17, 2017
  • Airbnb / Design
    OwO

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    OwO
    I'm close with the team at Airbnb who banned the users before the incident - there was no PR motivation behind it, we were surprised the story blew up as much as it did. Airbnb has always been pro-diversity, inclusion, etc., and I don't think other companies are motivated by anything other than "we don't want shitty people using our platform".
    Aug 17, 2017 1
    • If you were to be fair, you would have to apply the same treatment for BLM. After all, they called for the cop killings and just like the nazis they had a nutjob in their group to actually do it, even though they didn't do it as a group/mob. I'm pretty sure that's never going to happen so...
      Aug 19, 2017
  • Google / Eng
    npva63

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    Microsoft
    npva63
    There will be more scrutiny of companies after an event like that. This is just good planning: fix any issues before they show up in the news
    Aug 17, 2017 0