1) They're the worst kind of hipsters 2) They've never encountered a single life problem any worse than dad's check coming too late to avoid the $50 late rent charge that one time
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The fact that Disney makes the list of "most evil tech companies" for pulling The Fly out of the rotation for discount movie theaters (apparently) really does tell you just about everything you need to know about journos on the tech beat circa 2020pic.twitter.com/rdC69qLFJq
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Frankly, the people who chide me for "giving clicks" to these guys are more often than not happy to signal-boost the same sources when it suits them. I'm going to keep posting the tripe until you internalize that these are, in fact, the same people you're getting your news from
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Every time you read a sketchy profile on the CEO Of The Day I would very much like you to ask yourself if whatever he or she supposedly did is worse — in the humble journalist's opinion — than canceling a rerun of The Fly
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Elon Musk starts a space company and spurs more innovation and competition than has existed in decades, launches a car into space as a payload test instead of concrete, and he and his company are evil?.
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important to keep in mind these people are broken
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This is pretty impressively poor journalism. Basically everything about the SpaceX one is wrong (Boeing's commercial crew program is similarly delayed, and the car was a mass simulator: concrete is usually used, but the mission certainly wasn't a whim).
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Literally twenty minutes of research would have demonstrated both points. It also glosses over a much more substantial criticism of Disney, which it that it has repeatedly lobbied for longer extensions of copyright term, depriving the public domain of numerous IPs.
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If this is as evil as it gets, does this mean tech companies are good?
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Tired: 30 under 30 Wired: The Evil List
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very evil: - pulling The Fly - launching rockets to space - delivering packages to people not that evil: - helping China with internet censorship - surveilling the Uigur population to decide who to send to labor camp next "ranked by the people who know" so it's true
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