Commenters To Dropbox CEO: Houston, We Have a Problem

theodp (442580) writes "On Friday, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston sought to quell the uproar over the appointment of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to the company's board of directors, promising in a blog post that Rice's appointment won't change its stance on privacy. More interesting than Houston's brief blog post on the method-behind-its-Condi-madness (which Dave Winer perhaps better explained a day earlier) is the firestorm in the ever-growing hundreds of comments that follow. So will Dropbox be swayed by the anti-Condi crowd ("If you do not eliminate Rice from your board you lose my business") or stand its ground, heartened by pro-Condi comments ("Good on ya, DB. You have my continued business and even greater admiration")? One imagines that Bush White House experience has left Condi pretty thick-skinned, and IPO riches are presumably on the horizon, but is falling on her "resignation sword" — a la Brendan Eich — out of the question for Condi?"

Comments

"won't change its stance on privacy"

[Anonymous Coward]

If you trusted Dropbox before, your an idiot.

If you think that this is going to make Dropbox less private, instead of being just another expression of the revolving door, your an idiot.

If you are annoyed about the grammar in the previous two paragraphs, your an idiot.

The protesters should brace themselves ...

[cold fjord]

A great move on the part of DropBox, they'll get plenty of free advertising. The protesters should brace themselves for the Streisand Effect.

And no, DropBox should not give in. Ankle biting crazy comments posted on-line aren't a scientifically valid sample that would be genuine proof of a problem in the general public. A couple of posts on Leftist bitter clinger message boards would easily generate this sort of thing. It's what they do.

Again Timothy with the bullshit "stories"

[phayes]

News for nerds, stuff that matters... RIP.

Now it's whipping up mobs and abandoning it's historic readership by forcing beta on us. I've already removed /. from my rotation of news sites on my iPad due to beta being forced upon me there. Looks like I'll need to abandon /. on weekends when Timothy is active.

Re:And the attempt to duplicate their efforts resu

[ganjadude]

Sounds like the same thing they did to the mozilla CEO. When will these loser knock this shit off? I dont like the woman either but there are other reasons to fault dropbox without bringing her into it

Or perhaps we should take a page out of their playbook? why are they woman hating??? and shes black??? RACISTS!!!! You know thats what would be happening if the politics were the other way around

Justice

[gourmetbum]

Whenever someone has unpopular political views we should try and get them fired from any job they get. And the same goes for their families. Hell, we should probably just steal their belongings and toss them in the streets. At a minimum, the businesses in our society should be balkanized by political beliefs, trading with and hiring only those who agree with their politics.

Re:And the attempt to duplicate their efforts resu

[HBI]

Your accusation of war mongering is as specious as all of the rest, going back to Kissinger. The wars were going to happen, with or without Condi Rice and with or without your approval. They were a geopolitical fait accompli. Hell, people back in 1990 could see where the next world problems were going to come from. Your blindness is inexcusable in that context.

A failure to recognize reality - realpolitik - doesn't make you morally superior. It makes you an idiot.

Will you now believe that fascism is left-wing?

[aristotle-dude]

How many examples will be required before you believe that fascism has always been a left or centre-left wing ideology? The control of the means of production the tendency for social/political control usually go hand in hand. The National Socialist Worker Party started out as a far left organization and moved to centre-left only to garner support from some industrialists. The same thing happened with the leftist Labour party under Tony Blair. They moved to the centre to make themselves electable enough to garner a majority government. Under his regime, the surveillance state apparatus was increased significantly and my CCTV cameras were installed throughout the UK. The left has NEVER been concerned about protecting individual civil rights. They have only ever been concerned with collective rights of groups and what they like to call "protected classes" within society.

The radicals on the left are continuing their efforts to silence all free speech political action of the opposition. They have no interest in individual freedoms but only their agenda. If you are not with them, they will scream at you and call you a bigot, a homophobe or whatever false accusations they can to silence you. They speak of "tolerance" but what they really want is your silence and they have no tolerance of their own for differing view points.

They went after Eich for a simple 1000 dollar political donation and now they are trying to oust Condoleezza Rice? Why aren't these people trying to attack her not being called racists and misogynists and bigots? Are black people only protected if they are Democrats?

Enough is enough. The people who say that they stand for freedom must stand up for freedom regardless of which party you have voted for in the past. It is your duty to stand up against the bullies. It is your duty to stand up against the fascists.

Here is an important video about how the IRS and various other organizations including OSHA and the FBI are being used to harass americans over their political beliefs. This woman was interrogated by the IRS over her twitter posts and Facebook activity? What kind of fascism is that? How is that relevant to the IRS? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...