I've been wondering when deplatforming would hit enterprise software companies. No longer shall I wonder.
The journalistic ignorance around firearms is staggering: 'assault-style rifles', 'fully semi automatic', etc etc.
Salesforce is really not a good enough product to be throwing it's weight around like that. It's expensive, it's clunky, and there are plenty of alternatives.
It’s a good thing Northern California has perfect morals, otherwise companies based there forcibly exporting them to the rest of the world might have some downsides.
I am wondering how this will impact gun fanatics that don't sell guns. I can easily see this costing Salesforce more then just companies that sell guns. Companies owned by pro gun rights people will likely leave as well.
I guess international arms dealers now have an avenue to enter civilian markets haha.
The arrogance of these companies to impart what Americans can and cannot do is stunning.
Ha! This is probably because there was a request from a high paying user for implementing some arms dealer specific flags in the system, and some smarmy developers felt the need to stay in character (using their SFW promotion centric face) and raise complaints.
In a work environment at a publicly traded company with a humorless HR department, even posturing can lead to profoundly stupid and robotic, deterministic or inelastic outcomes, where fear of consequences conducts a signal like a bucket brigade passing the buck to its logical destination.
So, there was a conference call, Camping World got the memo, the communications department changed published policies, and then journalists ears perked up, and now it's a shit storm.
The question to me is whether salesforce executives really think they can stop their customers from selling guns, or whether they are just virtue signalling.
The reality is that retailers that sell guns will continue to sell guns, and salesforce will lose customers as a self-inflicted wound.
The argument "if you don't do it, someone else will" isn't valid here, because CRM software is not a necessary economic input for selling guns.