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This guy, @PalmerLuckey, put some of his billion FB dollars toward explicitly funding white supremacy. Peter Thiel approved the acquisition.pic.twitter.com/4Qa6T0w5mI
One reason every political hashtag on Twitter is filled with racist trolls? The founder of Oculus is funding them:http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/22/palmer-luckey-the-facebook-billionaire-secretly-funding-trump-s-meme-machine.html …
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Deba: Right now is the perfect time to halt all of your development for Oculus. Or shift budget to Cardboard, Hololens, any other platform.
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(Luckey appears to have left Facebook. Affecting FB's share price may still be the only mechanism for holding him accountable.)
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he did? I thought he's still at Oculus VR, which is run pseudo independently
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it's vague, still trying to understand FB's answer.
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that's not exactly what the article says tho
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How do you interpret "It went along the lines of ‘hey, I have a bunch of money. I would love to see more of this stuff.’"?
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1) what he wants to see more of is "RL shitposting" ie billboards etc. He's not funding people to post crap on twitter
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all they had been doing is shitposting online, isn't it logical to assume he wanted to see more of that?
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his explicit goal was to take it offline; you posited that his money is "one reason ...twitter is filled w/racist trolls">
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implying that he is already paying trolls to post on twitter. AFAWK, he's not.
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I see your interpretation, but seems like hair-splitting. sending money & saying he wants to see more trolling is pretty clear?
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no money was sent to anyone tho
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Funny, I mean you call people racists, sexists etc. But' I'm literally watching your mates send sexist abuse to his girlfriend.
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not my mates, but are you pretending you're against sexist abuse?
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I am against sexist abuse and are you denying journalists just wrote hit pieces on his GF and she's getting abuse?
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I have no idea, haven't seen it. Hope you'll join in speaking up against rapists like Trump.
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Trump is a rapist, when did this happen again?
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@kifleswing think he's left.
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