By Amanda Sakuma, Apr. 12, 2014, MSNBC
Dropbox founders responded to an Internet revolt that
swelled this week after the tech company asked Condoleezza Rice to serve on its
board.
CEO Drew Houston issued a sort-of apology Friday and said
inviting the former secretary of state to serve on the company’s board would
not impact its fight for transparency and government surveillance reform.
“We should have been clearer that none of this is going to
change with Dr. Rice’s appointment to our Board,” Houston wrote
in a company blog post. “Our commitment to your rights and your
privacy is at the heart of every decision we make, and this will continue.”
Earlier in the week, Internet
users rebelled against the appointment of Rice, who served under
President George W. Bush and was a central architect of the U.S. invasion into
Iraq. The online campaign “Drop Dropbox”
urged users to ditch their Dropbox accounts and opt for an alternative.
Critics
called for Dropbox to remove Rice over her role in pushing the Bush
administration mantra that Iraq leader Saddam Hussein was developing weapons of
mass destruction.
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