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> never seen a CEO or executive try to limit their employees from signing up for Blind by redirecting emails I get that it’s creepy that this is being done, bu
by orev 2y ago
> never seen a CEO or executive try to limit their employees from signing up for Blind by redirecting emails
I get that it’s creepy that this is being done, but I highly doubt that nobody at Blind has “never seen” this. Blind sends spam using multiple different domain names trying to get people to sign up. The domains are rotated so they can get around blocking on the email server, and the fact they do it means they already know that companies try to block them.
- qgin 2y agoBlocking, sure. But literally sending the emails to the CEO might very well be a new one.
- rwmj 2y agoThere are loads of terrible companies around, so I'd be surprised if none of them had ever tried to intercept Blind sign-up messages before now, and if you're a tyrant CEO at one of said terrible companies, getting the emails forwarded to you is merely the next logical step. The next paragraph in the text is a lot more interesting: Some of the most commonly discussed topics on Blind are protected speech in the U.S.—pay, job terminations, critiques of workplace conditions—which we believe workers should be free to access and discuss. What are the consequences (in the US) of a company blocking that?
- 0cf8612b2e1e 2y agoZero. Protected speech is protected from government intervention. You can run your own forum that bans people from discussing <thing you hate> without repercussions.
- ceejayoz 2y agoEh, discussing salary is a right, guaranteed by the National Labor Relations Act.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 2y agoYou are totally right. Was knee jerk thinking of generic free speech protections from private companies. That being said, blanket blocking access to a forum might still be ok? You do not know specifically what would be discussed there.
- lmz 2y agoBlocking signups to a specific forum using company email is not blocking salary discussions.
- ceejayoz 2y agoYou'd want to be very sure that at no point an email/text along the lines of "let's do this, because people are discussing salaries" was sent that might show up in discovery.
- Alupis 2y agoSo what if it does? You are not prohibiting discussing of salaries - you are prohibiting discussing of salaries while using company property and company time. There is no problem here.
- kragen 2y agoNLRB has ruled many times on companies "prohibiting discussing of salaries while using company property and company time", virtually always striking down the prohibitions and in many cases sanctioning companies for trying to impose them. Labor organizing activity is absolutely allowed to happen on company property and company time. It would be impossible otherwise at many workplaces. Think about auto factories, coal mines, offshore oil platforms, etc., especially before email.
- Alupis 2y agoYou are misinformed. The NLRB does not allow you to use company time and company property to do non-company things. You can use your own break time to discuss salaries. There is nothing a company can do to prohibit that. It's really that simple.
- kelipso 2y agoYeah, it's like the most obvious security problem with blind that anyone would think of. Maybe this is the only company that made it obvious that they are monitoring for blind but there are probably plenty of smaller companies monitoring blind in secret.