When companies start peddling poor people in need from some desperate place to pull on our heartstrings ... it's a problem.
If this were something related to their core product - maybe.
But this is virtue signalling at it's ugly finest.
Surely, they mean well. Kudos for that - it's good they're spending a tiny portion of their trillion dollars doing that.
What I object to - strongly - is the attempt to brand themselves by this act, to imbue themselves with some kind of moral fervour, especially in such an emotional way.
"Look at these puppies, they were starving, and then we saved them! Everyone likes puppies, right?" Ok, so they actually saved puppies.
---> Now please fix our privacy problems, which is actually the core of what you're supposed to do.
When companies start peddling poor people in need from some desperate place to pull on our heartstrings ... it's a problem.
If this were something related to their core product - maybe.
But this is virtue signalling at it's ugly finest.
Surely, they mean well. Kudos for that - it's good they're spending a tiny portion of their trillion dollars doing that.
What I object to - strongly - is the attempt to brand themselves by this act, to imbue themselves with some kind of moral fervour, especially in such an emotional way.
"Look at these puppies, they were starving, and then we saved them! Everyone likes puppies, right?" Ok, so they actually saved puppies.
---> Now please fix our privacy problems, which is actually the core of what you're supposed to do.