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Salesforce doesn't get dragged into anti-tech sentiment because they build a b2b product. The Twitter activists who lead most of the anti-tech crusades don't kn
by splaytreemap 6y ago
Salesforce doesn't get dragged into anti-tech sentiment because they build a b2b product. The Twitter activists who lead most of the anti-tech crusades don't know what CRM is or what it does because they
never interact with it because they are unemployed.
The people who do use Salesforce for the most part hate it. But you'll never see widespread outrage about Salesforce because the people who use it have jobs, families, and friends that prevent them from spending all day on social media.
- fake_throw_away 6y ago==The Twitter activists who lead most of the anti-tech crusades don't know what CRM is or what it does because they never interact with it because they are unemployed.== The arrogance of HN is becoming pretty off-putting. Do you have any sources to back up this claim?
- asciident 6y agoMaybe the quoted author was a bit flippant in their comment, but to put it another way, wouldn't you agree that if someone were to say "Salesforce is letting people spread fake news" or "Atlassian has a contract with ICE" that there would be relatively less interest and clicks on the headlines? The fact that the consumer-oriented tech companies are on peoples' minds makes a difference whether it's worth going after them.
- fake_throw_away 6y agoYes, it is harder for consumers to boycott non-consumer companies.
- 3131s 6y agoHN is filled to the brim with petulant morons who really, really want to bury their heads in the sand while the rest of the world gets fucked over. Here "politics" is everything that reminds them of how terrible they are.
- tester34 6y ago>Here "politics" is everything that reminds them of how terrible they are. I think you're doing the same thing that you just criticized
- TheCoelacanth 6y agoI think it's less that they have never heard of it and more that they are one level farther removed from being influenced by average people. "Twitter bad. Don't use." is a much easier sell than "Salesforce bad. Other company uses Saleforce so it's transitively bad. Don't use other company."
- mayneack 6y agoPalantir is a b2b product. What makes you think "twitter activists" lead most of the anti-tech crusades? If it's based on your observations of them on twitter, that probably says more about where you're looking than where they are. I don't know where anti-tech activism is centered, but twitter wouldn't be my first guess.