Update: Unity office death threat was made by a Unity employee (www.polygon.com)
from ram@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.ml on 15 Sep 2023 10:58
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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.

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Steveanonymous@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 2023 11:23 next collapse

The call was coming from inside the terrible company!!!

[deleted] on 15 Sep 2023 11:31 next collapse

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KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml on 15 Sep 2023 14:14 next collapse

You know, when you dig yourself into a hole, the fix is to STOP DIGGING.

Madison_rogue@kbin.social on 15 Sep 2023 17:21 collapse

Not even an anonymous threat, which could have been implied by the initial reporting. Riccitiello used this opportunity to cancel a town hall event where he could be confronted with these controversial changes by overblowing the actual threat to his company and his employees. Wow, coming from this sleazebag I'm not surprised.

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So now, anytime a CEO or representative uses death threats and/or retaliation against employees as an excuse to interrupt company functions it could be considered entirely suspect. He's not the first to do it recently (fuck you u/Spez), but this doesn't help respond against actual credible threats to people from disgruntled users.