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#DropDropbox petition wants Condoleeza Rice off Dropbox board

Dropbox announced on Wednesday that former US secretary state Dr Condoleeza Rice, will be joining the Dropbox board of directors, but not everybody is happy about Rice’s appointment.

A new site called #DropDropbox has been set up, calling on Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to remove Dr Rice from the Dropbox board of directors, otherwise the creators of #DropDropbox and anyone else who supports the petition will stop using Dropbox.

“Choosing Condoleezza Rice for Dropbox’s board is problematic on a number of deeper levels, and invites serious concerns about Drew Houston and the senior leadership at Dropbox’s commitment to freedom, openness, and ethics. When a company quite literally has access to all of your data, ethics become more than a fun thought experiment,” the petition reads.

According to #DropDropbox, these are the reasons why Rice shouldn’t be on the board of directors:

  • Condoleezza Rice was president Bush’s national security advisor during the lead-up to the Iraq War, and was intimately involved in the decision to go to war with Iraq and spoke publicly in support of it.
  • Rice played a central role in affirming the “legality” of the Bush administration’s torture program. A senate report revealed that Rice verbally agreed to allow torture methods to be used on captured suspects, and then lied about the extent to which she was involved.
  • Rice not only spoke in favor of the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretap program and expansive domestic surveillance program, she authorized the warrantless wiretap of UN Security Council members.
  • Until 1982, Rice was a registered Democrat and voted for Jimmy Carter. Shortly thereafter, she changed her party affiliation because “in part because she disagreed with the foreign policy of [the president].”

Supporters are prompted to “tell Drew Houston: drop Condoleezza Rice or we will #DropDropbox” by sharing a link to the site via Twitter and Facebook. And just so supporters aren’t left without options outside of Dropbox, the site lists a number of alternatives to move to such as Google Drive, Box.com, Spider Oak and One Drive.

#DropDropbox also has a petition on Causes.com which supporters can sign. So far it has 2 962 signatures, with another 2 038 more needed.

Dropbox is yet to comment on the issue.

[Image: DropDropbox]

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