It looks like he used his access to millions of customer emails to spam them with his political views.
> I know you don’t want to hear this from me. And I guarantee I don’t want to say it.
This whole thing just reeks of narcissism and delusion. And that's saying something, since I mostly agree with him otherwise. I can't imagine this did anything but piss off a lot of people.
I had the same reaction. I think Trump is probably the worst President in history so obviously I'll be voting for Biden, but I still agree with most of this person's reply letter.
If a vendor decided to misuse information that I trusted them with, or tried to tell me who to vote for, they'd instantly become an ex-vendor - even when I agree with their opinion.
Oof imagine working there and speaking up from the "other side". I'd just leave tbh. Or just stay silent. There is a reason a lot of people don't want to talk about things like that in a workplace.
Presumably some of the many recipients of the email are both US voters and EU residents with dual citizenship.
In that case would this be a breach of the GDPR?
Thankfully it seems to have went directly to spam, as I had to look to find it, but the point remains.
Worse still, he had his official company marketing account go and hype up everyone who replied to him on Twitter applauding his actions here.
It's not surprising to see a tech CEO feeling so empowered to do so, given how widespread similar political behaviour has become in recent years.
One could say that these tech companies have egregiously overplayed their hand in the past few years and personally, even as someone sitting in the middle with little skin in the game, I hope the coming years sees the same entities metaphorically have their fingers, nay the whole hand, shattered. The alarm has been sounded and it is time to reign this industry in.
The graph is quite explanatory of Team Blue and Team Red. In 2004 the median democrat and median republican were close together as it had been since the beginning 1994. Why did the divide increase so much in 2011?
In fact if you place your finger on the 1994 median republican line. Republicans went slightly to the left and then more or less havent changed since 1994. Now do the same for the median democrat. The democrat party has been the one which changed just before 2011
Identity politics as part of Obama to become 'the first black president' has created a schism. The identity politics has continued into Trump hence why 'he's the best since Lincoln' but also called a huge racist. Huffpost article from before Obama got the nomination and it was still up to Obama vs Clinton.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-crisis-of-identity-po_b_8...
There hasn't been are significant identity politics in the USA until around 2008. At least there hasnt been for a long time.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/america-is-suffering-an-i_b_1...
An identity crisis is just the tip of the iceberg. The political divide is coming from the democrats. Hence why you have Democrats like the CEO of expensify threatening civil war.
