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How many times have we seen this ploy? First you have a nice policy, then you change it to something extreme that causes outrage, then you walk back most of th
by cryptonector 2y ago
How many times have we seen this ploy? First you have a nice policy, then you change it to something extreme that causes outrage, then you walk back most of the change saying you had legal or whatever baloney reasons to make the change in the first place and somehow couldn't wordsmith the language well enough the first time.
I don't buy it. I hope some day business schools begin teaching that this ploy is a very bad idea. And if this really is the corporate lawyers being greatly insensitive then force PR and others to review every change they make to any policies that could destroy the company.
- chrismorgan 2y agoIn this instance, they haven’t walked anything back yet: rather, they’re trying to explain why they’ve done what they’ve done, why it isn’t as bad as it looks but is just a matter of others using the wrong definitions… and then demonstrating that it’s them that have the wrong definition after all, and it is exactly as bad as it looks. And that the Mozilla of even ten years ago wouldn’t have been in this bind.