That's the big question everyone in that thread is asking. A trusted business partner and sudden unsollicited spam, not to mention "in kind benefits" to a political party.
Some? That's MOST of it. Even hard leftists in there are saying "You just crossed a huge red line with this shit. Even if I agree with you, YOU DON'T DO THAT." On top of that, other business CEOs and managers having to deal with offices that they have to force politics out because it'd make the work environment volatile, and suddenly everyone got a big-ass email from their expense accounting partner.
As far as I know it's not illegal. But I think it's certainly a violation of the relationship between the vendor and the customer. I'll be pushing for my company to drop these assholes, though they're converged enough that they probably won't.
They sent this to all their customers and users of those customers against their own TOS including companies and users in Europe. Where doing so is a violation of GDPR and punishable by a fine of 4% of operating profits per incident.
Is this even legal? I get opting in to emails for business services, but isn't an unsolicited political plea severely unethical?
That's the big question everyone in that thread is asking. A trusted business partner and sudden unsollicited spam, not to mention "in kind benefits" to a political party.
They trusted a woke business partner. I think that part is perfectly legal. The "in kind benefit" part could be interesting, though.
They went international with this email. This is definitely a violation of privacy regulations in multiple regions (EU, AU and UK).
I doubt they sent an email to anyone outside of the US.
There are people in the very thread saying they got it in Canada and Switzerland. This was clearly a "send to all" move rather than carefully curated.
Glad to see there's at least some pushback in the comments.
Some? That's MOST of it. Even hard leftists in there are saying "You just crossed a huge red line with this shit. Even if I agree with you, YOU DON'T DO THAT." On top of that, other business CEOs and managers having to deal with offices that they have to force politics out because it'd make the work environment volatile, and suddenly everyone got a big-ass email from their expense accounting partner.
Bruh maybe I'm seeing a different thread. A lot of people still trying to do gymnastics to justify it.
As far as I know it's not illegal. But I think it's certainly a violation of the relationship between the vendor and the customer. I'll be pushing for my company to drop these assholes, though they're converged enough that they probably won't.
They sent this to all their customers and users of those customers against their own TOS including companies and users in Europe. Where doing so is a violation of GDPR and punishable by a fine of 4% of operating profits per incident.