> Principle is more important here than a particular outcome. What happens with Ms. Rice is not the issue here. What matters is upholding the abiding principle (precious in a free society) that people can hold divergent views on such topics as politics, religion, and society without being punished for their views in a business context.
The "free market" can punish whomever they please for any reason. That's capitalism.
Can you please clarify how a "big dongle" joke is sexist? I honestly don't understand and I think many people don't and that's why they're saying it's not sexist.
You haven't really given any supporting evidence here -- you just said it created a "hostile, sexualized environment". How?
This sounds much better conceptually than it winds up being in practice.
I tried one of these before, but crap like interstitial ad pages on news sites being hosted on some of these advertising sites made my browsing experience occasionally more annoying with the hosts entries.
First step to making it better might be fixing the awful scrolling. Chrome on iOS is slick but it stutters like hell when scrolling large vertical pages. Safari has no problem.
That's the end goal, unfortunately there are plenty of cargo cultists that don't really understand it and think the process is the important part.
I've worked on scrum teams before, it can be done well if no one takes it too seriously IMO. Once you start guilting the team over the artifacts of scrum, it's fallen apart and become a detriment to your goal of Getting Shit Done.
The "free market" can punish whomever they please for any reason. That's capitalism.