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0 pointsrmc14y ago0 comments

They were probably worried that some other employee was making sexually explicit videos, or even worse, videos of child sexual abuse. If that was happening, it might come out eventually. If it came out that the company was also aware that employees were making personal videos, then that's potentially bad PR for them.

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m0nastic14y ago· 2 in thread

Correct, they were specifically worried about the appearance of them condoning whatever content was produced if it was publicly known.

The result from this was for them to just dissolve that entire department, and then outsource any future video production that they might need.

jeffool14y ago

Which, to me, is an insane concern. Who wouldn't understand, in the rare instance of such abuse, "we trust our employees to conduct themselves in an appropriate manner. This person misused our trust, etc."

m0nastic14y ago

I thought it was insane rather than to deal with issues like that on a case by case basis, they decided to just fire ~ 30 people. But then again, I'm not a corporate muckety-muck, so what do I know.

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