Is Rainbowification Controversial?

Happy Pride Month, Hackers! 🏳️‍🌈 Amy Tom, Linh Dao Smooke, and Kien Dao have a thoughtful conversation about LGBTQ+ culture in the tech industry and intersectional discrimination in the workplace. They also discuss WWDC 2021, the iOS 14.6 privacy update, and security news. 🖤🤍🤎

This Week On Planet Internet, Amy and the Daos get into:

• Is participating in rainbowification for Pride month considered controversial? ❤️ (05:27)
• What is Pride/LGBTQ+ culture like in Vietnam where Kien currently lives? 🧡 (08:03)
• Rainbowifying the Hacker Noon brand: Kien gets into his design process 💛 (12:30)
• Kien, our resident Apple lover, explains what went down at Apple's WWDC 2021 Keynote 💚(17:43)
• Linh updated to iOS 14.6 and Facebook asked her to share 3rd party data permissions. Whaddup with that? 💙 (21:58)
• Amy gets jazzed about the cybersecurity news in America - she explains the JBS foods cyberattack 💜 (27:17)
• So apparently Jeff Bezos is going to space 🖤 (34:39)

🗒️ SHOW NOTES:

• Want to see whether a company is supporting LGBTQ+ matters? Head to progressiveshopper.com
• Check out the @soyouwanttotalkabout Instagram post about Rainbow Washing https://www.instagram.com/p/CPnmMm1HDAs/
• Read Kien's article about the rainbowification of the Hacker Noon brand: https://hackernoon.com/the-rainbowfication-of-the-hacker-noon-logo-happy-pride-month-hr4c34l9
• Hacker Noon contributor, Tara, writes about the JBS Foods cybersecurity incident: https://hackernoon.com/the-jbs-foods-cybersecurity-incident-8ls36ic
• Bezos is going to space on July 20th, as reported via this video

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