<story><title>Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgxma3/slack-blog-post-worked-with-police</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ceilingcorner</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a witch-hunt, plain and simple. Of course the police needs reform, demilitarization, higher standards, more accountability, and better educational requirements.&lt;p&gt;How you get any of those things by demonizing the police and making it a left-vs-right political issue is beyond me.</text></item><item><author>jeffdavis</author><text>Are we saying that:&lt;p&gt;(a) police are a net good, but slack is aiding&amp;#x2F;encouraging particular bad behaviors; or&lt;p&gt;(b) police are a net bad and we should just deny them anything that enables them to do their jobs; or&lt;p&gt;(c) police are a net good, but it&amp;#x27;s bad PR to associate with them</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marcinzm</author><text>&amp;gt;How you get any of those things by demonizing the police and making it a left-vs-right political issue is beyond me.&lt;p&gt;These aren&amp;#x27;t new issues, practically speaking every attempt at less radical solutions hasn&amp;#x27;t worked and there have been many. In the end, the solution will be filled with political compromise and the weaker your starting position the more compromise there will be.</text></comment>
<story><title>Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgxma3/slack-blog-post-worked-with-police</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ceilingcorner</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a witch-hunt, plain and simple. Of course the police needs reform, demilitarization, higher standards, more accountability, and better educational requirements.&lt;p&gt;How you get any of those things by demonizing the police and making it a left-vs-right political issue is beyond me.</text></item><item><author>jeffdavis</author><text>Are we saying that:&lt;p&gt;(a) police are a net good, but slack is aiding&amp;#x2F;encouraging particular bad behaviors; or&lt;p&gt;(b) police are a net bad and we should just deny them anything that enables them to do their jobs; or&lt;p&gt;(c) police are a net good, but it&amp;#x27;s bad PR to associate with them</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway894345</author><text>&amp;gt; How you get any of those things by demonizing the police and making it a left-vs-right political issue is beyond me.&lt;p&gt;I get this vibe as well. I want to interpret this charitably, but this seems antithetical to good faith participation. It feels like these people don&amp;#x27;t actually care about police brutality--any arbitrary partisan issue would suffice. Of course, I&amp;#x27;m sure I&amp;#x27;m misreading the situation (even though social psychology&amp;#x27;s most replicable studies predict exactly this sort of hyper-partisanship).</text></comment>