You have GOP party members actively supporting a coup. And intend to do so again.

Worse than the 1960s.

Great information and so nicely presented. Reading through it i had to stop and wonder, why aren't more articles written with this type of interactive data to back up the author's points.

well you're definitely a bot

Everyone on the internet is a bot. Especially you.

Does not compute!

It may have been a hackneyed attempt to point out real issues, but to call it propaganda... by who? Who is running the big 'maybe all these social networks are kinda bad, or at least we should be aware of what they are doing' scheme?

You say that like it's a bad thing?

>The honeyed words of social justice are more important than great, well executed products, apparently.

I like how all the other comments are pointing out that the forces behind an acquisition are never good for 'focused products' and then there's this comment that shows us the truth, it's those damn kids and their social justice that ruins the products.

Well, since you're being deliberately obtuse - I'll expound.

My point is that these companies are moving focus away from the products that got them to where they are, to a set of vague handwavy concepts that are completely unquantifiable. And, in my experience anyways, this usually comes at a cost to the existing products.

Corporate branding efforts to be more "woke" are cheap. It doesn't cost Raytheon much to paint their logo as a rainbow and do an "employee story" about how they have also have LGBTQ employees (building missiles). But don't get under the impression that Raytheon still isn't focused on building missiles. It's just an easy corporate branding win for most of them, so they just do it.

I don't think social justice messages on a website or social media are necessarily a sign of losing focus. It's just some branding stuff. If the company is "losing focus" is likely due to many more factors.

Hah, bingo. I suspect all the people who left Basecamp will soon realize this when they finish their paid sabbaticals and move on to other companies.

you think a US Federal institution would attack a major US Company and cause suffering to a large swarths of the population, just cause?

Not the parent, but yes, I do think they would, if they had a good enough reason. And that reason might not be readily apparent to us here.

I don't think that was the case here, but... yeah.

you are correct in as much as the reason isn't apparent

Idunno, thats a whole new level of tiger-teaming your own side. I don't think this kind of thing meets the whitehat community's ethical standards.

I think so. They sold 10's of millions of Cocaine to Americans to fund a War in Nicaragua.

I highly recommend anyone that has this initial reaction to what these companies are benefiting from their surveillance models check out

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Surveillance_Capita...

Which does an excellent job helping to stimulate thought of just what the power and purpose of these types of apps as well other structures (alphabet) are able to do...

There's something about divide and conquer in there, i'm sure of it.