stephanie

trying & failing to wrap my mind around the idea of the same tech people who complain about "witch hunts" enthusiastically supporting a thread singling out individual journalists for comments they made on twitter

the thing where vcs in control of millions of dollars bitch endlessly to their 150k twitter followers about how they're victimized by the tech press is so stupid it's insane

It’s almost as if people who have a platform and their main directive is to write true words... Are held to a high standard and criticized when their words are wildly untrue Crazy how that works

in general i think this attitude taken towards the tech press is fucking stupid like. if you believe their platform is important and they're reporting the wrong things, help them report the right things. if you don't believe their platform is important then ignore them

Or it’s possible to hold both in your head. Which is that the platform is important, but you also want to engage when you believe they have reported something factually incorrect Very appreciative of the shit bear writing the Uber book, I don’t agree with his conclusion...

that Travis should have been booted. But I am deeply appreciative of him taking the time to tell such a complicated story from all sides. That doesn’t stop me from wanting to also push back when I think he is making inaccurate statements