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Condoleezza Rice AP Photo/Ben Margot
Not happy
Dropbox users protest after Condoleezza Rice is appointed to the board
Users reacted angrily to the appointment with some vowing to stop using the cloud-computing company in protest.
FILE-STORING WEBSITE DROPBOX has been strongly criticised by some of its users after it appointed Condoleezza Rice to its board.
Users reacted angrily to the appointment after it was announced in a company blogpost on Wednesday, with some vowing to stop using the cloud-computing company in protest.
In a post, Drew Houston, the founder and CEO of Dropbox said the company had sought out a leader “who could help us expand our global footprint”.
“We’re honoured to be adding someone as brilliant and accomplished as Dr Rice to our team,” he wrote.
However, an anonymous website has been set up and a hashtag is circulating using the phrase ’Drop Dropbox’ urging the company to reconsider and users to move to alternative services instead.
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On the Drop Dropbox website, users say that the issue is not about political partisanship but says her appointment is “problematic on a number of deeper levels”.
It says that Rice helped start the Iraq War, was involved in the creation of the Bush administration’s torture programme, has authorised several wiretaps without warrants, and was on the board of directors at oil company Chevron.
As well as serving as Secretary of State under George W Bush, Rice has also worked as Provost of Stanford University and has been a board member of a number of companies, including Hewlett Packard.
Her tenure as Secretary of State was deeply contentious as the administration plunged into wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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