UNBELIEVABLE – AT 11:21 A.M. ET:  More political correctness.  Charles Krauthammer warned this week of an increase in intolerance by the political left.  He is right.  Is anyone surprised? 

Last week we saw the new CEO of Mozilla, designers of the Firefox browser, forced out of his job because of a history of politely opposing gay marriage.  Now it is Condi Rice's turn.  Some weeks ago the leftist shock forces tried to pressure Rutgers University into canceling its invitation to Rice to deliver this year's commencement address.  Unlike Brandeis University (see post below), Rutgers stood its ground and Rice will speak.

Now the thought police are targeting Rice again.  From Fox: 

Internet activists are calling for the boycott of popular cloud storage service Dropbox after it named former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to its board of directors earlier this week.

The outcry stems, in large part, from Rice’s support for the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping program during the Bush administration. But the company believes having the former national security adviser will help raise its global profile.

“This is deeply disturbing, and anyone – or any business – who values ethics should be concerned,” says a blog post on Drop-Dropbox.com, a site that’s leading the call for the boycott. “Given everything we now know about the U.S.’s warrantless surveillance program, and Rice’s role in it, why on earth would we want someone like her involved with Dropbox, an organization we are trusting with our most important business and personal data?”

The site lists several other cloud storage services users could use as alternatives to Dropbox, which is used by 275 million people worldwide. Support for the boycott has stretched across social media, and was "upvoted" to the highly-trafficked Reddit front page, as well as the site's technology section front page, PCWorld.com reported.

COMMENT:  Expect this trend to worsen.  These are bullies, and bullies will continue their bullying until someone stands in their way. 

I hope Dropbox doesn't give in, but we'll follow the story.

April 11, 2014