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As another comment said, I also dropped everything and read the article. So yeah I guess that'd mean Streisand effect is coming into play.

Regarding the topic at hand: I don't care what these companies say at this point. The fact is that in the past, I have used their services, clicked the "free" button, did some things, and then ended up having to pay them money.

Until the day comes that I get a letter in the mail from the government saying, "Here's how much you paid in taxes, if you're cool with that then please disregard", I will not be satisfied.

Most of that interview is deadly dull and there’s no way I would have read to the end.

Very nice of Intuit to highlight the juicy parts.

[Drops everything to read the article. ]

No one from Intuit has any business asking an interviewer to, essentially, falsify data that can easily influence share price. If Goodarzi can't take the heat in an important interview, then her minions failed to prep her adequately. That's a "you" problem, Miss "I am Intuit", not the reporter's problem.

Absolutely, these corporate types are so clueless when it comes to public messaging.

They realized that it's obvious that they're the bad guys, and the interview response wasn't convincing. But then to try to bully the interviewer into deleting it? That just seems stupid.

Eh. Honestly, the line of "questions" was rather stupid.

"Why aren't you lobbying to make your business irrelevant" is essentially what the interviewer pushed aggressively.

Sure, I get calling out a CEO for deflecting tough questions with corporate BS. But it was a pretty dumb line of questioning in the first place.

Why isn't Google lobbying for privacy protections?

Why isn't Comcast lobbying for net neutrality?

Just make your statement and ask for comment. "Our listeners consider Intuits lobbying against tax reform that would benefit tax payers to be adversarial to their customers. What would you say to them?"

I have more important things to do than to lobby the government to send a tax bill.

Why would the CEO be dumb enough to say this in an interview? If your business model is fucking people, your CEO has to have a cool head when asked if he’s fucking people!

hahahahahahaha they don't like it one bit when their dirt is put on display for all to see

Decoder podcast which this is from and specifically Nilay Patel is awesome, if you're not subscribed check it out

https://pca.st/podcast/01a33f10-fcfe-0132-18b7-059c869cc4eb

There's a good episode a few months back where the CEO of Logitech tries to justify the mouse subscription.

He's also one of the hosts of the Vergecast https://pca.st/podcast/5cda9490-4117-012e-1622-00163e1b201c

Step 1: go on record

Step 2: punch self in crotch

Step 3: have someone else angrily insist you didn’t and/or that should be stricken from the record because you yelped.

Everything looks by-the-book here.

Considering I would have never heard of this otherwise, yeah I think it's the Streisand Effect at work. But what a bizarre thing to want scrubbed from the Internet. Like it's not a particularly hard-hitting question and the CEO clearly had a prepared, corporate-speak answer ready. It feels like something that wouldn't have attracted any attention if they hadn't called attention to it. So, classic Streisand Effect I guess.