Following the shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, multiple major health insurance companies have taken their executive leadership pages offline.
Proving they know they’re a terrible industry with terrible people - and they’re okay with that so long as they don’t actually have to face any consequences for it.
Security through obscurity never worked, and never will work. Someone who could plan an attack like the recent one can figure out leadership hierarchy from a lot other sources. Aren’t these publicly traded companies?
He was going to the shareholder conference. I guess the attendees knew he was the ceo not from a random landing page.
FYI: if the insurance company is publicly traded, CEO information is available through their prospectus. Call their investor line and ask for one.
By law, they must have this information public.
For Minecraft. Obviously.
You don’t even have to ask the company! Companies have to file a form called a 10-k every year, which is publicly available through the SEC’s website. 10-k’s list their governance and leadership.
Bwhahahaha!
I may have no choice but to let them squeeze me for every cent they can, but it’s fun to imagine them quaking in their boots a bit after this.
It’d be really wild if they took their LinkedIn pages down next
A point that may be overlooked when you consider how pointless this action seems to be to someone like the original shooter: They have opened the door to public awareness that this group is a viable target for a broad swathe of people who may be looking for a similar opportunity.
If this action does trigger copycat actions, it’s very likely they will be less refined. The one who tried to take out Trump seemed to be just as willing to target Biden. For someone who is just doing a surface level search, obfuscation can be effective. That isn’t an option for public figures, but may be an option for insurance executives.
For the assertion you can just get their info from documents from a publicly traded company, in addition to the above, the people writing the rules are being paid by the people who are potentially being targeted.
Good luck finding a new CEO, I bet the title will change and responsibility will be diluted but nothing else will change.
I understand why it can seem like justified revenge, but really a CEO is an employee. The business itself is made up of it’s owners.
Edit: revenge
Much of the work of getting evil done requires the banal work of clerks and cops and other complicit cogs in a machine that rewards them for their compliance in helping to maintain a facade that the system works and is legitimate.
For when I speak of the banality of evil, I do so only on the strictly factual level, pointing to a phenomenon which stared one in the face at the trial. Eichmann was not Iago and not Macbeth, and nothing would have been farther from his mind than to determine with Richard III ‘to prove a villain.’ Except for an extraordinary diligence in looking out for his personal advancement, he had no motives at all… He merely, to put the matter colloquially, never realized what he was doing… It was sheer thoughtlessness—something by no means identical with stupidity—that predisposed him to become one of the greatest criminals of that period. And if this is ‘banal’ and even funny, if with the best will in the world one cannot extract any diabolical or demonic profundity from Eichmann, this is still far from calling it commonplace… That such remoteness from reality and such thoughtlessness can wreak more havoc than all the evil instincts taken together which, perhaps, are inherent in man—that was, in fact, the lesson one could learn in Jerusalem.
And what does Barbara Streisand think about that?
You mean the freely available elsewhere list of C-suite executives at publicly traded companies will no longer be available on their website?
