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I'm not sure if I'm more scared of a company that makes horridly insecure devices and then tells its employees "do everything you can, be as manipulative as you can, but get this review taken down", or if I'm more scared of a company that actually tells its employees "I will fire you if you don't get this review taken down".

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Aren't those things roughly equivalent to the average worker?

I guess I meant the former in terms of it simply being the worker's job to get the review taken down. No actual threat of being fired at all, but the company has given their implicit (or worse, explicit) 'ok' for using that threat as a manipulation tactic.

Both are forms of moral bankruptcy, I was just curious whether the seemingly-desperate employee was a victim or a player.

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