I disagree with this post. At the very least, I feel like there should be some kind of caveat or limit regarding the size of the organization or distance that one has from the organization. For example, if I’m writing a post or comment about some poor experience I had with Amazon, do I have a moral obligation to run that post by Amazon’s PR beforehand? No. Amazon is a huge company, and I’m not really connected to them in any way, so I do not and should not feel any obligation towards them prior to sharing my experiences with their products or services.
If you don’t have a cooperative relationship with the org then I wouldn’t apply this rule, no. But most org criticism I see where someone didn’t run it by the org is in cases where someone has either no preexisting relationship with the org (beyond being within the EA community) or one that’s sufficiently cooperative that sharing would have been fine.
I disagree with this post. At the very least, I feel like there should be some kind of caveat or limit regarding the size of the organization or distance that one has from the organization. For example, if I’m writing a post or comment about some poor experience I had with Amazon, do I have a moral obligation to run that post by Amazon’s PR beforehand? No. Amazon is a huge company, and I’m not really connected to them in any way, so I do not and should not feel any obligation towards them prior to sharing my experiences with their products or services.
I’m only proposing here that EA community members let EA organizations review drafts before publishing.
I think this probably also applies to other similar communities, but not without that cooperative relationship.
Isn’t whether there is, in fact, a cooperative relationship likely to be precisely the issue at hand, in many cases of criticism of EA orgs?
If you don’t have a cooperative relationship with the org then I wouldn’t apply this rule, no. But most org criticism I see where someone didn’t run it by the org is in cases where someone has either no preexisting relationship with the org (beyond being within the EA community) or one that’s sufficiently cooperative that sharing would have been fine.