I couldn't agree more. We have a very easy task identifying right-wing style totalitarism, but apparently sillicon valley has a blind eye when it's coming from its left.
Soooo, putting public pressure on a company that is employing a very controversial politician who is linked to war deaths, mass surveillance and torture is left-wing totalitarianism. Care to explain yourself?
Listen, war means death. Counter-terrorism means spying and surveillance, and unfortunately very often, torture.
Those are things a state does and has always been doing for the last 3000 years. The fact that we know about it, that we think about it as grown up, that we are trying to do otherwise whenever we can, and choose to prevent abuse is what makes us unique as a democratie.
Now please, let me laugh at those people in the valley that wants to pretend that they have some sort of political view because they are boycotting dropbox.
You may think the war in Iraq was a strategic mistake, or was useless, but don't try to pretend that Mrs Rice is the equivalent of some south american fascist and that corrupts whatever she touches. That's just a total lack of respect for the people that truely lived under those regimes.
The states of Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Finland, Belgium, Norway do no such things. US, China, Russia and others on the other hand do. So don't feed me this 3000 years crap.
US is not trying to do otherwise, Rice wasn't trying to do otherwise. Dropbox board, Dropbox top management lost all my trust as soon as they agreed to work with the person responsible for lots of human suffering. It's simple really, its about the character of people running dropbox.
Sweden, Denmark and Holland have no army and no international interests or responsibility at stake.
The US took the responsibility to protect western countries since they won world war 2. That means protect their interests as well as ours (i'm European), which sometimes means remove a vicious dictator from power instead of flooding him with oil money. The fact that the public opinion has a word to say about it every 4 years is what makes a democratie.
It makes absolutely no sense to compare their foreign policy to the one of Sweden or Finland.
I'm really curious to know which company is going to be next at this horrible witch hunt. Twitter ?
