I remember the guy started working on military defense but i didn’t know he founded his own military defense company named after the lord of the rings with the help of peter thiel. Also i wasn’t aware his company is now producing an arsenal of surveillance weapons and leading the sector.
Did he ever possess a different world view? Or did we assume someone in tech in early 2000s must be actually smart and not a bad person, only to find out they’re a piece of shit a la, Zuck, Dorsey, Musk, etc.
Remember there was a time we didn’t know everything about these people and the notion that they were creating these platforms and industries for the betterment of man kind didn’t seem so crazy.
Now we know every last one of them is a money obsessed freak with entire cemeteries in their closets, touting “Effective Altruism” or “Rationalism” or whatever new fad fake philanthropists are claiming this quarter.
Probably they didn’t change at all but their influence scaled up. Lying to a person or to a million people doesn’t carry the same weight
My god, people here are STILL struggling with the idea that their perspective isn’t absolute, and that they actually need to investigate the world to truly know things about it, instead of just relying upon the social media hive mind to tell them truth from fiction.
He did make those claims himself, in the past. Which of course means fucking nothing, because actions speak louder
What’d Dorsey do?
Well his general leadership of Twitter.
His absolutist take on “Free Speech” that allowed alt right and Nazi groups to flourish and spread on his platform
Then the eventual sale to Elon Musk, where he kept acting like he had no choice/no say in the sale.
left bluesky and endorsed X b/c bluesky decided to do moderation
You do realize there’s way more people in tech than those types of people?
You do realize we’re not talking about those people right?