When it comes to Shutterstock there is more to the story then just censorship in china. 20% of the company pushed back and the only answer was “no”. There was zero attempt to compromise.
Wayfair employees walked out and got some amazing compromises! they listened! This is good management!
Why would anyone want to work for a company that will not listen to their own employees?
Excited to have @David_Ingram and @NBCNews dive deeper in to what happened at @Shutterstock when it decided to ban search terms in china. Employees and media need to work together to hold companies to account.
And I also want to make a reminder that I care a lot about Shutterstock and my fellow employees. I don’t want to have a controversy to talk about. I just want to build websites with my friends. 9+ years I was able to do that. I wish everything had been different.
I think Bieber just knighted Splice.
Shutterstock blocked me on twitter because I keep talking about their censorship in china but don’t want their customers to know about it. Internally leadership was so proud that they made the right chose for the company but I guess hiding it from customers is also how to make a right choice for the customer? They can’t get upset about what they don’t know!
TechCrunch has an article covering Shutterstock, its censoring, and my departure. It’s a great article and I hope you read it. It is a complex issue. I hope Shutterstock finds a way to take a stance other then saying it will follow local laws and do any censoring needed to keep it’s partnerships.