Editor's Pick: What Tech Companies Are Doing Wrong With Extremists

What Tech Companies Are Doing Wrong With Extremists

Rob Enderle Aug 21, 2017 10:58 AM PT

It is starting to worry me how little the responses by tech firms will do to fix the problem of extreme views instead of just driving them underground. This is largely due to the excessive focus firms now have on how they are run. Companies tend to be run tactically, with officials more likely to make decisions that will seem to make a problem go away but do not deal with the cause of the problem. [More...]

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