this is actually a pretty wild headline to appear on the verge frontpage
good on them
I see a lot of people hate The Verge and I don’t understand why. Is it perfect? No. But, I think they have a pretty solid ethics policy and they call out bullshit.
I like 404 better but Verge is by no means bad.
Maybe there was an issue with them that I don’t know about? Idk!
Google “verge pc build”. They ran a video of a guy, completely unqualified, building a “$2000 PC”, and doing almost everything wrong. And then the guy called people racists for dunking on him. There’s layers to the story. The Verge has been a joke of tech reporting for years.
Found it. Yeah that video was bad.
To their credit, they did issue a retraction and repost the story with correct steps.
The copyright strikes were definitely a dumb way to handle it.
Idk if true or not but in an Arstechnica story, The Verge’s editor in chief apparently asked the Vox lawyers to rescind the copyright strikes.
I don’t mean to sound like I’m defending them. The video should never have made it up in the first place, but people make mistakes. If you own it and apologize, I’ll give you a second chance.
I don’t always agree with their take on a topic, but for the most part I have found them to be factual.
I do also agree with many Ed Zitron takes about them tho. They could be doing a better job on AI, but over the last few weeks I’ve seen an improvement there.
TLDR: that PC build from 8 years ago was dumb and extra embarrassing, they should feel bad for it, but I still think some if the hate they get is unjustified.
They pulled Tumblr over cartoon porn, but using AI to sexually abuse actual women and children is all good, apparently.
Because billionaires like these two, and the corporations that they run, believe they’re largely not accountable to the law nor cultural pressure. They exist in a cloud of privilege that never holds them to account for truth, justice nor anyone’s wellbeing as long as the investors get paid. They are sociopaths.
Post deepfake porn of them and their wives or husbands on X.
That’s…actually a pretty good idea.
More views, more ads. Go ahead make them richer.
Because they are indeed cowards.
“Coward” implies that they want to do good, but are too scared to do so. There’s no reason to think that, and indeed we shouldn’t. They want money and Elon makes them money; that’s all there is to it. If ethics mattered to them at all, they wouldn’t have been able to climb to the position of CEO of a major corporation in the first place.
More proof that rules and guidelines only apply to those without power or privilege.
Everyone watched as Tim Apple bowed and kissed the ring. ‘Coward’ was already his namesake.
It appears to demonstrate that it’s very much profit over principles and values.
This was a really good article. The author is rightfully pissed off.
here you go >> https://archive.ph/WtSlJ
You can just enable ublock origin to bypass these verge popups
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Because, it’s NEVER been about protecting kids, or other vulnerable people. The filthy rich don’t give one flying fuck about vulnerable people.
Because billionaires like to stick together because they think that they’re better than all of us combined.
Because money. And the laws are useless against them.
And the blackmail in daily life
They are not cowards, they don’t give a single shit about it. There isn’t enough backlash to effect Google so Google doesn’t care. That is how corporations deal with every subject. They don’t treat child porn differently becuase it’s one of the more henious offenses; it’s simply another rule broken and it is delt woth the same way as anyother broken law or rule: ignore it or throw money at it and admit no wrong doing.
It’s the opposite. They are cowards. Any move to do the right thing makes you a target for oh dear leader (who is also a pedophile). So they ignore it because it’s more profitable to avoid falling out with the administration. The only value a corporation has is greed.
Fuck Tim Apple and Sundar Google.
What’s stopping people from making extremely cursed deepfakes of these idiots and spamming it everywhere? They’ve got to get tired of it eventually.
They can afford to hire the Pinkertons to find you.
Not them… their family members. Spouses, siblings, parents, kids. There are no rules any more.
I don’t know man, C level executives are all about the money, they would sell out their moms to make a buck.
If it doesn’t hurt their position in the company, they wouldn’t give a single fuck. They literally kissed the ring of a dictator, they’d dance to any tune to make the line go up.
In elons case he actually would love that, he’s fucked
