Unity closes offices due to ‘credible death threat’
www.polygon.com
The closures come after a week of controversy around a new pricing model

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/5340114

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Original Discussion[1]

San Francisco police told Polygon that officers responded to Unity’s San Francisco office “regarding a threats incident.” A “reporting party” told police that “an employee made a threat towards his employer using social media.” The employee that made the threat works in an office outside of California, according to the police statement.

  1. https://lemmy.world/post/5057297 ↩︎

  • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8610·
    1 year ago

    Honestly at this point I feel worse for the guy who made the threat than anyone else. Can you imagine what is like working with those sort of bosses with such exploitative tendencies and an utter disregard for an entire industry? They get to ruin countless lives but if anyone gets mad that’s the unacceptable one who is punished.

    • Elderos@lemmings.worldEnglish
      155·
      1 year ago

      Unity employees have extraordinary working conditions and pay. It sucks that their hard work gets tarnished by stupid executives and poor PR but let’s not paint the employee as a victim here.

      • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.worldEnglish
        194·
        1 year ago

        The number of people being ruined is pretty different though.

        I get it, it’s a callous attitude, but I’m wondering if going for civility above anything else is really working out. I’d love for such situations to be settled with a reasonable discussion, but do they ever?

          • FaceDeer@kbin.social
            103·
            1 year ago

            Because a threat is not an attempt. Most likely they had absolutely no intention to carry through with it.

            It’s still bad but saying “I’m gonna kill you” is not the same as actually trying to kill you.

            • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.worldEnglish
              33·
              1 year ago

              Because a threat is not an attempt…but saying “I’m gonna kill you” is not the same as actually trying to kill you.

              Obviously, but you don’t ignore it either. You don’t wait for a DUI to crash before doing something about the threat. Say you’d like to shoot the president and see if the secret service ignores you.

              • FaceDeer@kbin.social
                71·
                1 year ago

                You said that he didn’t kill anyone because he got caught first. Which implies that if he didn’t get caught he would have actually killed someone.

                They really aren’t the same. It’s a common fallacy on the Internet to lunge straight to the worst possible case and equate that to whatever it is you’re arguing, but it really isn’t the same. Sure, the secret service won’t ignore you if you say you’d like to shoot the president. But will their reaction be the same as if you’ve smuggled a gun in to a press conference and are spotted actively moving to get near him? Obviously not, because what I said remains true. Simply saying “I’m gonna kill you” is not the same as actually trying to kill you.

    • ???@lemmy.worldEnglish
      35·
      1 year ago

      But they didn’t just get mad (if this is the full story). They sent them a death threat. I think there is a fine line.

      • pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        93·
        1 year ago

        I’ll bite: Death threats are not as serious as tanking an entire company and ruining thousands of lives.

        (I don’t actually think that; I just feel like playing devil’s advocate today)

          • pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            11·
            1 year ago

            A fair point. None of the news articles even give us any real, meaningful details as to what happened so we don’t know if it was just execs who were threatened or if, perhaps, there was a bomb threat or something. I wish we could see a screenshot of the actual threat so we could make a determination.