It's time for western companies to stop pretending it's possible to be economically successful in China whilst remaining true to their purported western values.
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Whole purpose of E2EE is to assume server is untrusted, but build a secure system anyway.
Zoom can watch & read your content whenever they want to. Full stop.
>"unfortunately, the NSFG doesn’t have full data on men’s premarital sexual behavior, and in any event they recall their own marital histories less reliably than do women)"
But anyone who's been paying attention knows, depressingly, that the stories coming out of Uber aren't new or unique.
The gross culture depicted in these kinds of posts maps pretty-much 1:1 with the wider culture of the Valley.
-- Sure, but Uber is already a mission-driven company whose success is inversely proportional to horrible things like DUI deaths -- statements like these impede their progress
Publicly condemning the internal culture the post depicted would be reasonable, even helpful, but trying to "expose" Uber's leadership for showmanship and posturing ('hiring' Holder who was ostensibly involved long-before the Fowler post) to mitigate the pr fallout is counterproductive. Don't kick your founder when he's down.
Their goal, for better or worse, seems to be to circumvent the relationship-building part of fundraising at the earliest stages of startup development.
Imagine an America in which the poorest families had two cars and a four-bedroom house, in a safe neighborhood with good schools. Would it then be considered problematic if Gates and Buffet became trillionaires?
The problem is poverty; the problem is that the south pole is too far south. It's problematic that many still don't have access to the fundamental Maslow's. The space between the poles isn't.
The internet means information travels faster than ever before, but also inadvertently causes "interesting things" to outpace "the truth".
Properties like Upworthy/Buzzfeed/ect. exacerbate this. Von D is right not to capitulate.
Rice was probably hired for several of the reasons that you mentioned above. Ultimately though, it's hard to make useful speculation from outside of the company, with little knowledge of the company's long-term goals.
The guys at Dropbox are smart; isn't the "obvious" assumption that Rice could be useful in helping them to better manage some of these interests (e.g. potentially reducing govt. snooping by facilitating a more level playing field for comms. and negotiation)?.
Aren't most reasonable people utilitarians? :)
As for character, it's unclear what's unsettling about presumed utilitarians acting towards what they believe to be best outcomes.
However, the creative capitalist would argue that rather than penalizing fossil fuel companies (via Carbon tax), governments would do better to reward innovators via more 'green tax credits' and like financial incentives. You get the same* overall impact, just with less political push-back and more R&D, driven BY capitalism.
And by the way, Gates invented "Creative Capitalism" (https://www.fpsct.org/uploaded/faculty/johnsonc/U_S_History/...).
In reality, Rice could've been recruited because of her relationships with top govt. security officials, in the hopes of facilitating more conversations, in which Dropbox has more leverage, to push back against mass surveillance.
If something like this isn't the case, then firing Rice wouldn't be a resolution anyway.