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I agree in principal that the politics behind a business matter. But why focus on Dropbox? Rice teaches at Stanford too, why not boycott Stanford and anything c

I agree in principal that the politics behind a business matter. But why focus on Dropbox? Rice teaches at Stanford too, why not boycott Stanford and anything coming out of it?

CydeWeys 11y ago
There's a big difference in scope and impact between merely teaching somewhere and being on the Board of Directors and running it. It's not equivalent.
- andreyf 11y ago
  She was Provost there from '93 to '99, which is a little more than teaching [1]. I think that while her willingness to go with the Bush administration's extremist positions (on torture and surveillance, especially) are a dark mark on her career, Dropbox is worth dropping for wholly different reasons (e.g. technical incompetence [2]) than who is on their board. 1. "As the chief academic and chief budgetary officer of the University, the Provost is responsible for administering the academic program, including both instruction and research, and for the coordination of the administrative and support functions of the University with its academic purposes." (https://provost.stanford.edu/ https://provost.stanford.edu/) 2. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Dropbox-Accidentally-Turned-Off-Passwords-on-File-Storage-Service-655206 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Dropbox-Accidentally-Turne...
  - CydeWeys 11y ago
    To be fair, though, her provost tenure there was before her tenure in the Bush administration, where her most egregious acts took place. You can't blame them retroactively for not knowing what a monster she would reveal herself to be in the future.
    - plonh 11y ago
      It isn't about punishing monsters , it is about not trusting our personal data to someone who has professionally committed herself to stealing it.
- dave_sullivan 11y ago
  I disagree. As a professor at Stanford, she's teaching the future rulers of the world how to rule. At Dropbox, she's showing up to board meetings and taking a salary.
  - plonh 11y ago
    Her teaching at Stanford is the same sort of trophy namedropping photo op that being on the board is. You can't actually get a PhD in Hegemony from school.
    - mentat 11y ago
      > PhD in Hegemony Probably will cost me karma, but I find this incredibly amusing, thanks!

I agree in principal that the politics behind a business matter. But why focus on Dropbox? Rice teaches at Stanford too, why not boycott Stanford and anything coming out of it?

CydeWeys 11y ago

There's a big difference in scope and impact between merely teaching somewhere and being on the Board of Directors and running it. It's not equivalent.

andreyf 11y ago
She was Provost there from '93 to '99, which is a little more than teaching [1]. I think that while her willingness to go with the Bush administration's extremist positions (on torture and surveillance, especially) are a dark mark on her career, Dropbox is worth dropping for wholly different reasons (e.g. technical incompetence [2]) than who is on their board. 1. "As the chief academic and chief budgetary officer of the University, the Provost is responsible for administering the academic program, including both instruction and research, and for the coordination of the administrative and support functions of the University with its academic purposes." (https://provost.stanford.edu/ https://provost.stanford.edu/) 2. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Dropbox-Accidentally-Turned-Off-Passwords-on-File-Storage-Service-655206 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Dropbox-Accidentally-Turne...
- CydeWeys 11y ago
  To be fair, though, her provost tenure there was before her tenure in the Bush administration, where her most egregious acts took place. You can't blame them retroactively for not knowing what a monster she would reveal herself to be in the future.
  - plonh 11y ago
    It isn't about punishing monsters , it is about not trusting our personal data to someone who has professionally committed herself to stealing it.
dave_sullivan 11y ago
I disagree. As a professor at Stanford, she's teaching the future rulers of the world how to rule. At Dropbox, she's showing up to board meetings and taking a salary.
- plonh 11y ago
  Her teaching at Stanford is the same sort of trophy namedropping photo op that being on the board is. You can't actually get a PhD in Hegemony from school.
  - mentat 11y ago
    > PhD in Hegemony Probably will cost me karma, but I find this incredibly amusing, thanks!