Following the shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, multiple major health insurance companies have taken their executive leadership pages offline.

UHC, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, Caresource and more are removing or redirecting their about us pages.

  • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3441·
    17 days ago

    I enjoy how this article basically enumerates every name removed from their sites.

  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
    2372·
    17 days ago

    If you’re worried that your CEO will be murdered, that might be an indicator that you have some deep problems as a company. If you’re all worried, that may be an indicator that your entire industry is a problem.

    • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
      602·
      17 days ago

      It’s really not that hard to run an insurance company without making people want to murder you

      • sexy_peach@feddit.orgEnglish
        422·
        17 days ago

        Don’t forget that that a CEO legally has to maximize profits. Otherwise the shareholders can sue.

        Edit: apparently this is incorrect. It is what they’re hired to do though, so not a big difference.

        • stembolts@programming.dev
          14·
          17 days ago

          Yea dummy… that is the “reality” we want changed.
          To you it’s immutable, to us it’s not.

          The economy isn’t driven by the laws of the universe, it’s people, we can change it any time and have chosen not to. So now CEOs are dying.

          Wanna change it now? No?
          Alright cool. Maybe this is the new normal then.
          People have a limit.

        • futatorius@lemm.ee
          2·
          16 days ago

          Don’t forget that that a CEO legally has to maximize profits.

          That depends on the corporate charter.

      • Terrasque@infosec.pub
        235·
        17 days ago

        While I think these are scum, people want to murder people over too little cheese on their burger.

        • kreskin@lemmy.world
          26·
          17 days ago

          OK, but do do you think this particular case is similar to “too little cheese on a burger”?

          • Terrasque@infosec.pub
            14·
            17 days ago

            No, and I never said that. But thinking that you can run a big business and nobody would be “kill you” mad at you is very optimistic. People can be incredibly irrational, and the more customers you have the higher the odds of a crazy. And you only need one crazy to get lucky.

            If I was a CEO of a big company, I’d want some security 24/7, even if I made Saint Gaben look horrible in comparison, because you never know when some certifiable in Bumfuckistan decides I’ve destroyed his peepee with mind rays or something, and decides the only logical thing is to kill me.

            However, with this guy everyone wants him dead, and I really hope some of the chucklefucks running such companies start thinking if that really is the legacy they want to leave behind.

  • bean@lemmy.world
    143·
    17 days ago

    They shouldn’t let this become common. Hiding who Runs the company just makes them even MORE faceless and disconnected from humanity. Maybe focus on not shafting literally the entire population for money and shit coverage.

    • lad@programming.devEnglish
      26·
      17 days ago

      I would expect only the wrong lessons will be learnt. But I already saw a headline about another insurance company reverting some stupid policy, so maybe correct ones will be learnt, too.

    • Consumer2747@lemmy.world
      14·
      17 days ago

      If they’re publicly traded, then leadership is public record. Someone could always publish the info for them in a more helpful way than This

      • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
        6·
        17 days ago

        If they’re publicly traded, then leadership is public record

        For now.

        There’s a lot of CEOs and wannabe CEOs about to enter government.

  • Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world
    1102·
    17 days ago

    Let’s hope they live in fear. Let’s hope they are never comfortable, even in their mansions and yachts.

  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    102·
    17 days ago

    Hiding your website link isn’t going to stop someone your lack of humanity has pushed to the point of actually shooting you.

    And removing the tiniest bit of visible accountability you give doesn’t seem like a particularly good idea either.

    • venusaur@lemmy.world
      5·
      17 days ago

      If this is truly a pissed off customer I’d be curious to see their appeals and grievances trail.

  • 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.worldEnglish
    98·
    17 days ago

    Good thing there isn’t some kind of machine that lets you go way back in time to see the pages before they were removed

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      54·
      17 days ago

      Good thing someone who can plan their attack and track their target for days or weeks, someone with absolutely nothing to lose and a single-minded purpose, would absolutely give up on their plans if they can’t find a public picture of a company’s CEO on the first page they check.

      • Daemon Silverstein@thelemmy.club
        8·
        17 days ago

        Yeah, but there are some problems with LinkedIn: content can be edited, profiles can be hibernated or deleted, not to mention the need of being logged in with a LinkedIn account in order to visit a profile (something that will be snitched to the profile being visited, especially if such profile pays for LinkedIn Premium, they get to see everyone who visited them).

        Deletion and edition are improbable (although not impossible) to happen on Wayback Machine and Archive Today (and anybody can visit the archive, no account is needed).

      • DeadWorldWalking@lemmy.world
        23·
        17 days ago

        We killed one CEO, which resulted in one change to their company.

        They stopped automatically denying people anesthetic for surgeries because a CEO was shot.

        It works, it was just proven that indiscriminate attacks against the wealthy result in them making concessions.

        Now we just need to kill one CEO for every small improvement we want to see.

        We have a lot of work ahead of us as a country

        • reksas@sopuli.xyz
          2·
          16 days ago

          not enough in the long run, there must be something that prevents this shit from coming back if we manage to fix or improve it in anyway. Otherwise they will just bide their time and we are back at the same point but with even less chances to do anything about it.

  • Absaroka@lemmy.worldEnglish
    60·
    17 days ago

    Yeah because somebody as motivated as the shooter in Manhattan will totally be deterred by removing the “Our Team” pages from your website.

    Talk about focusing on the wrong thing. How about instead of worrying about how to hide the names of your executives you instead have a meeting where you decide to be an ethical company that balances the needs of the shareholder with the needs of your customers.

    Novel idea, I know.