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by kevinclancy 2958 days ago
My guess is that they realized it fits into the "corporations are evil" narrative that has become popular with many angry people on twitter recently, and then decided they didn't want to feed into it.
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> "corporations are evil" narrative that has become popular with many angry people on twitter recently

I'm fairly certain that narrative, and it's popularity, precedes Twitter by at least a few years.

Here's an Atlantic article that details a bit of the history:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/04/evil-co...

yes, surely removing this will make people think better of them.